[
US
/mɪˈsteɪt, mɪsˈsteɪt/
]
VERB
-
state something incorrectly
You misstated my position
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.