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Her Asian-American critics, like Jeffery Chan and Benjamin Tong, accused her of inauthenticity, willfully mistranslating Chinese stories and customs to appeal to a white readership.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019

One of his interpreters confessed to frequently mistranslating his boss so as to make sense of the nonsense Arafat had spoken.

From Time Magazine Archive

He misstates it thus: "To such laws of the church as have warrant in holy scripture, our law giveth credence," and cites Prisot, mistranslating "ancien scripture" into holy scripture.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

This word "charity" was one of the words that Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, charged Tyndale with mistranslating.

From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

And cites Prisot; mistranslating 'ancien scripture' into 'holy scripture.'

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson