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Misquotation

Misquotation \Mis`quo*ta"tion\, n. Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.

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misquotation

n. An incorrect quotation.

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misquotation

n. an incorrect quotation

Usage examples of "misquotation".

The others, down to their smallest item, were defaced with capitals, head-lines, alliterations, swaggering misquotations, and the shoddy picturesque and unpathetic pathos of the Harry Millers: the OCCIDENTAL alone appeared to be written by a dull, sane, Christian gentleman, singly desirous of communicating knowledge.

Oh, the Ferry fiasco could have been my finest hour, with the Queen in mourning, Yankee politicos declaiming three-hour tributes full of ten-dollar words and Latin misquotations (not Lincoln, though.

Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.