| 单词 | misspeak |
| 释义 | misspeak (once / 787955 pages) v To misspeak is to say something the wrong way. You can misspeak by pronouncing someone's name incorrectly, or misspeak by saying something that accidentally offends them. Sometimes when politicians are called out on controversial things they say, they claim to misspeak. Saying that you misspeak implies that a mere slip of the tongue kept you from saying the right thing, and allows you to set the record straight. In the fourteenth century, to misspeak was both "to say amiss," and also "to speak insultingly," from the Old English missprecan, "to grumble." WORD FAMILYmisspeak: misspeaking, misspeaks+/speak: misspeak, speakable, speaker, speaking, speaks, spoke, spoken/speakable: speakably, unspeakable/speaker: speakers, speakership/speaking: nonspeaking, speakingly, speakings/spoke: spokes/spoken: spokenest, spokenly, unspoken/unspeakable: unspeakably USAGE EXAMPLES“All right. Madam Secretary, you correct me if I’m wrong here; I don’t want to misspeak for you—Secretary Clinton believes in science!” The New Yorker(Nov 04, 2016) Take, for example, a statement so obviously false that you wonder whether Trump has a secret strategy to deliberately misspeak. Salon(Oct 02, 2016) “Sometimes you misspeak a little bit. I really do think this whole Clinton Foundation is ‘pay to play.’ The New Yorker(Sep 08, 2016) v pronounce a word incorrectly Syn|Hyper mispronounce articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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