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Misstatement

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mis·state  (ms-stt)
tr.v. mis·stat·ed, mis·stat·ing, mis·states
To state wrongly or falsely.
mis·statement n.
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Noun1.misstatement - a statement that contains a mistake
statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
mistake, error - part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
malaprop, malapropism - the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
slip of the tongue - an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
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I claim the right to correct misstatements, and have so corrected the color of the water in the above recapitulation.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
So many volumes had been written about the poet since his death that she had also to dispose of a great number of misstatements, which involved minute researches and much correspondence.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
Because, if I am not mistaken, we shall have to say that about men poets and story-tellers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are often happy, and the good miserable; and that injustice is profitable when undetected, but that justice is a man's own loss and another's gain--these things we shall forbid them to utter, and command them to sing and say the opposite.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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