[ US /mɪˈsteɪt, mɪsˈsteɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. state something incorrectly
    You misstated my position
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How To Use misstate In A Sentence

  • Look at the false police reports that omitted or misstated crucial facts.
  • Be careful not to misstate your case.
  • However, because her expertise is clearly not in photography, her commentary includes some significant misstatements and unclarities that require correction.
  • However, I may inadvertently have misstated this by suggesting that upper income folks end up paying more taxes than before in absolute terms.
  • He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
  • Both men repeated misstatements made in earlier debates, and added a few new ones.
  • Not only did he get the quote wrong, he also misstated the name of the character who said it and what the line referred to!
  • He misstated the Constitution's intent while accusing President Obama of "bastardizing" the document. MRC Latest Headlines
  • Rather, the problem was that the majority of them misstated the factors in precisely the same way.
  • It's been going on for a couple of cycles now, and it was designed to be - is designed to be both an antidote to the misstatements that the candidates say during the debate, but also it's supposed to be an antidote to spin.
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