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mis·quote

 (mĭs-kwōt′)
tr.v. mis·quot·ed, mis·quot·ing, mis·quotes
To quote incorrectly.

mis′quo·ta′tion (-kwō-tā′shən) n.
mis·quot′er n.
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misquote

(ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt)
vb
to quote (a text, speech, etc) inaccurately
ˌmisquoˈtation n
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mis•quote

(mɪsˈkwoʊt)

v. -quot•ed, -quot•ing,
n. v.t., v.i.
1. to quote incorrectly.
n.
2. Also, mis`quo•ta′tion. an incorrect quotation.
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misquote


Past participle: misquoted
Gerund: misquoting

Imperative
misquote
misquote
Present
I misquote
you misquote
he/she/it misquotes
we misquote
you misquote
they misquote
Preterite
I misquoted
you misquoted
he/she/it misquoted
we misquoted
you misquoted
they misquoted
Present Continuous
I am misquoting
you are misquoting
he/she/it is misquoting
we are misquoting
you are misquoting
they are misquoting
Present Perfect
I have misquoted
you have misquoted
he/she/it has misquoted
we have misquoted
you have misquoted
they have misquoted
Past Continuous
I was misquoting
you were misquoting
he/she/it was misquoting
we were misquoting
you were misquoting
they were misquoting
Past Perfect
I had misquoted
you had misquoted
he/she/it had misquoted
we had misquoted
you had misquoted
they had misquoted
Future
I will misquote
you will misquote
he/she/it will misquote
we will misquote
you will misquote
they will misquote
Future Perfect
I will have misquoted
you will have misquoted
he/she/it will have misquoted
we will have misquoted
you will have misquoted
they will have misquoted
Future Continuous
I will be misquoting
you will be misquoting
he/she/it will be misquoting
we will be misquoting
you will be misquoting
they will be misquoting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been misquoting
you have been misquoting
he/she/it has been misquoting
we have been misquoting
you have been misquoting
they have been misquoting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been misquoting
you will have been misquoting
he/she/it will have been misquoting
we will have been misquoting
you will have been misquoting
they will have been misquoting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been misquoting
you had been misquoting
he/she/it had been misquoting
we had been misquoting
you had been misquoting
they had been misquoting
Conditional
I would misquote
you would misquote
he/she/it would misquote
we would misquote
you would misquote
they would misquote
Past Conditional
I would have misquoted
you would have misquoted
he/she/it would have misquoted
we would have misquoted
you would have misquoted
they would have misquoted
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.misquote - an incorrect quotation
quotation, quote, citation - a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Verb1.misquote - quote incorrectly; "He had misquoted the politician"
quote, cite - repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her"
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misquote

verb misrepresent, twist, distort, pervert, muddle, mangle, falsify, garble, misreport, misstate, quote or take out of context His letter was misquoted.
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Translations

misquote

[ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt] VTcitar incorrectamente
he was misquoted in the pressla prensa no reprodujo con exactitud sus palabras
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misquote

[ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt] vtciter erronément or inexactement
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misquote

vtfalsch zitieren; he was misquoted as having said …man unterstellte ihm, gesagt zu haben …
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misquote

[ˌmɪsˈkwəʊt] vtcitare erroneamente
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References in classic literature ?
{il y a Bourbon et Bourbon = there are Bourbons and Bourbons (i.e., they're all the same); "What is bred in the bone...." = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)}
Pope Francis faces enough troubles without also having to put up with media misquotations.
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The "hollow and baseless" claims of Gaegae in an interview with the Lebanese TV (MTV) on Wednesday against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including his misquotations of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, are categorically rejected, read the statement.
It is when we utter a conviction deeply felt and long held that we are betrayed to verbal slips, misquotations, or quotations misapplied" (237).
A closer look at a few of Curnow's 'accurate misquotations', his 'quotations lifted from / life into a stony text' ('Moules a la Mariniere') should serve to clarify his technique.
Fabrizio Ravanelli: A much loved cult hero for three months but he never scored away after November as the goals dried up to be replaced by sulky strops, misquotations and doom-laden predictions of relegation before skulking off (with the fixtures and fittings) a year later.
I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed.
More serious are concerns about misquotations, errors in translation, and misleading use of sources.
(Unfortunately, this essay also contains a number of misquotations from the play.) More satisfying is Christa Jansohn's account of German productions of Twelfth Night, which offers thicker descriptions of the stagings she discusses, and also introduces many interesting ideas and problems of performance itself--including the "recent tendency of contemporary theatre to replace traditional character concepts [with] visual appeals" (212).