misstate
verbEtymology From mis- + state.
1
To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
- Near-synonym: misreport
- The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
1 more example
- Correction: August 21, 2017 An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2017, Asia Pacific:
- Derived terms
- misstater
- Related terms
- misrepresent, missummarize