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How to use misquotation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word misquotation? Here are some examples.

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It's not just a misquotation, or an incorrect fact or figure, it's an admission that, basically, the entire story was made up out of whole cloth.
Maybe that is a misquotation, but, if it is, in any event it needs to be corrected so that the process can carry on in the right direction.
Too often worn down by sloganeering or lost in misquotation, the truths of this statement are delicate, and seldom receive the careful consideration they demand.
Mr. Speaker, the minister's capacity for misquotation never fails to astonish me.
It's a slight misquotation, but the idea that we should be able to avoid making the same mistakes by studying the past is undeniably attractive.
I am not sure that any member's privileges were breached by misquotation of the member's comments.
As soon as they are written or spoken they become the property of the world, grist to its mills of rumour and opinion and to a vengeful eternity of quotation and misquotation.
My misquotation of Hamlet during the Shakespeare lecture brought laughs. I wish I'd done it on purpose.
For a number of reasons, not least to avoid misquotation and misinterpretation, the report was made publicly available on the Internet immediately after its release.
Presidential candidates, possessed of more abundant airtime, perhaps, than ideas with which to fill it, are the Dorothy Parkers of misquotation and misattribution.
Examples from Classical Literature
I lay no such flattering unction to my soul, if you will pardon the misquotation.
My correspondence about the misquotation of Tennyson has quieted itself since the fifth letter.
The controversy was suddenly diverted into a new channel, by a misquotation.
There is a quotation, or rather a misquotation, from it in the Preface to Alastor.
However, as it is said by a light-hearted girl of a very modern type, it may be assumed that the misquotation is intentional.
Katharine, in spite of her emotion, was quick to catch the misquotation.
This is a very flagrant instance of misquotation and misapplication.
And I'll end with a misquotation from Twain's own most famous misquotation.
Such groundless rumours were based on a misquotation of an official who was just giving an example of a possible violation that may happen and what to do in such case.
Further, an infelicitous misquotation obscures an interpretive subtlety her argument might have fruitfully pursued, but which remains unrecognized.
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