misstate
/mɪsˈsteɪt
/verb [with object]
Make wrong or inaccurate statements about: to say that he was alone misstates the case...
- Not only did he get the quote wrong, he also misstated the name of the character who said it and what the line referred to!
- But he didn't misstate anything or misrepresent himself at all.
- I think that misstates President Clinton's post-presidency statements on Social Security.
Synonyms
misreport, misrepresent, take/quote out of context;
distort, twist, slant, bias, put a spin on, pervert, falsify;
garble, muddle, mistranslate
rare misrender
Derivatives
misstatement
/ noun ...- If these paragraphs are representative, however, the article as a whole should contain, by conservative extrapolation, approximately 94 other serious distortions and misstatements of fact.
- It's been going on for a couple of cycles now, and it was designed to be - is designed to be both an antidote to the misstatements that the candidates say during the debate, but also it's supposed to be an antidote to spin.
- Both men repeated misstatements made in earlier debates, and added a few new ones.
Rhymes
- take the wind out of someone's sails
- take the words out of someone's mouth
- take thought
- take time by the forelock
- take to
- take to one's bed
- take to one's heels
- take to something like a duck to water
- take to the bush
- take to the road (or take the road)
- take turns (or take it in turns)
- take-up
- take up arms
- take up (or pick up) the baton
- cutch
- cut corners
- cut-down
- cute
- cutely
- cuteness
- cutesiness
- cutesy
- cut from the same cloth
- cut glass
- Cuthbert, St