misquoted in English

verb
1
quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately.
the foreign secretary had misquoted Qian
synonyms:misreportmisrepresentmisstatetake/quote out of contextdistorttwistslantbiasput a spin onfalsify
verb

Use "misquoted" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "misquoted" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "misquoted", or refer to the context using the word "misquoted" in the English Dictionary.

1. 2 He is frequently misquoted in the press.

2. 6 You misquoted me/what I said.

3. 20 I never said that at all - the press misquoted me.

4. 9 Dr Hall said he had been misquoted in the press.

5. 8 The senator claims to have been misquoted in the article.

6. 5 The minister complained that the newspapers had misquoted him.

7. 1 Many lines from Shakespeare's plays are misquoted and misapplied.

8. 10 The government speaker complained that the newspapers had misquoted him.

9. Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.

10. 7 He claimed that he had been misquoted and he threatened to sue the magazine for libel.

11. 4 Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.

12. Biblical proverbs include " Money is the root of all evil " ( misquoted from I Tim . vi, 10 ).

13. He claimed that he had been misquoted and he threatened to sue the magazine for libel.

14. Boated coated denoted gloated toted floated quoted throated demoted misquoted promoted bloated noted voted devoted outvoted uncoated.

15. 12 I suspect however that you have misquoted the number as the highest number I know is 574

16. The case was brought by a psychoanalyst who says a journalist misquoted him in a series of magazine articles.

17. The only thing I lampoon (or rather discount and even disparage) is the attempt to turn Lewis’s profoundly insightful words, by way of misquoted nonsense, into a shallow, Blathery, self-actualizing sound-byte such as “May the real me meet the real you” which falls so far short of Lewis’s actual words that anyone who digests the byte