misquoting

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verb lie, distort

1590s; see mis- (1) + quote (v.). First recorded in Shakespeare.

Related: Misquoted; misquoting. As a noun from 1855.

Hinton, Handbook to Arizona, 388, 1878 (misquoting Hakluyt).

Garlichithe's apologies to Mr. Hughes are due, not so much for neglecting his communications as for misquoting them.

Now, from Macleods habit of misquoting the finest lines it would seem that his love for poetry was not a poets love.

Very few things will make a man so angry as the misquoting of his words.

"'We shall meet, but we shall miss you—there will be one vacant chair,'" murmured the young officer, misquoting a song of the day.

"I am gathering rosebuds while I may, Mr. Pash," said he, misquoting Herrick's charming line.