misrecall

verb

misrecall

verb

Etymology From mis- + recall.

1

To recall incorrectly.

That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times:

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