misquoted

VERB

lie, distort

Synonyms

WEAK

adulterate angle beard belie build up cloak color con confuse cover up disguise distort dress embellish embroider equivocate exaggerate falsify garble give snow job mangle mask miscolor misinterpret misreport misstate overdraw overstate palter pervert phony up pirate prevaricate promote puff skew slant snow spread it on stretch take out of context throw a curve trump up twist warp

Antonyms

WEAK

be forthright be honest explain

Example Sentences

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misquoted

He later tried to back-pedal, claiming he was misquoted, but the country's human rights body found his comments "hurtful and harmful".

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

Few writers have been more quoted — or misquoted — than Orwell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

His opinion repeatedly misquoted key pieces of evidence to accuse officials of saying things that they did not.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” John F. Kennedy warned as he misquoted Edmund Burke.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2024

She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez