Crossword clues for misquote
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misquote \Mis*quote"\, v. t. & i.
To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To incorrectly recite a quote. 2 To incorrectly record a quote.
WordNet
v. quote incorrectly; "He had misquoted the politician"
Usage examples of "misquote".
I was thinking about things like love and soul and even a misquote from Shakespeare.
Yo quoted and misquoted, drowning in the flooded streams of her consciousness.
I have little doubt but that the Vincey who wrote them on the potsherd heard them so misquoted at that date.
I would think if a party claimed they were misquoted in a significant way, and could then prove it, it should be treated as a violation of the law.
For he soon found that, by the blunder of reviewer or printer, the best of the verses quoted were misquoted, and so rendered worthy of the epithet attached to them.
The sentence was misquoted, quoted without its qualifying conditions, and frightened some of my worthy professional brethren as much as if I had told them to throw all physic to the dogs.
When I told the press they misquoted me, and in the excitement of it all, one newspaper and another one got it so ensnarled up that nobody knew just exactly what they were talking about.
When he was done misquoting the poem on the Statue of Liberty, the youngest, Fifi, asked if she could blow out the candle, and Mami said only after everyone had made a wish.
The Vice President took to buttonholing people in the West Wing and telling them he had been misquoted, but it was a bit late for that.
Life for the Megarich, Kathi declared, misquoting Hobbes, was 'nasty, brutish, and long'.
But in the main the general pattern continued of critics repeating the same worn fallacies, citing misquotes of their own making, and academic journals publishing attacks on Velikovsky's person but not his arguments, and then refusing him space to respond.
And yet I now speak as a presumptuous caviller, unread in the lessons of the wise, and who vainly blunders over and misquotes their best learning.
Humphry Ward also twice misquotes the passage in "Lady Rose's Daughter.
That was when Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos observed that Gore’s misstatement was merely “a senator’s slip” and that Gore had “fixed” it (by accusing the press of misquoting him, apparently).