misquotation
- n an incorrect quotation
- That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction.
- As it was impossible to blame this pastoral letter on any misquotation, Republican ministers raged.
- As you know, this misquotation has been used world-wide as if it were fact that Ahmadinejad called for Iran to commit a Nazi-like genocide of Jews.