misstate
mis S tayt
- v state something incorrectly
You misstated my position
- I think there are some who deliberately misstate where the balance should lie but that's a different matter.
- Under the heading Music in your issue of April 5 I read with eye-protruding astonishment the article "In Little Rock," in which you grossly misstate the true manner of our Mary .
- That makes it easier for the Kleins and the Scherers and Obama to willfully misunderstand and misstate our position, and keeps the "balance" of "acceptable" political discourse .