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- verb Present participle of
misquote .
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Examples
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The line, often misquoted, is from the fi rst stanza of Kipling’s poem ‘The English Flag 1891’.
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Tharoor said he had been misquoted, which is why he was being misjudged.
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She also said she believed she was "misquoted" at the time.
Delaware Senate Debate: Christine O'Donnell Refuses To Say Whether Evolution Is A 'Myth,' Calls Opponent 'Marxist' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I don't know if I'm pleased or saddened to have joined the 'misquoted' brigade, though in my case it's on the fascinating physics of quantum entanglement.
Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010
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I don't know if I'm pleased or saddened to have joined the 'misquoted' brigade, though in my case it's on the fascinating physics of quantum entanglement.
Just because entanglement is 'spooky' doesn't make it mystical Brian Clegg 2010
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Are you claiming that she was "misquoted" or that she was "misinterpreted"?
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Of course, he left out the possibility of "misquoted".
So what's so wrong with a "WYSIWYG" world? Steve Caldwell 2008
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He later said he was "misquoted" and that reports on his utterances were "rubbish".
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How many times when a controversy comes up have we heard that someone was "misquoted" or they "misspoke" or we're told that "the only point they were simply making was that …" and then some point that bears no resemblance to the one they made; or they were just "taken out of context?"
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How many times when a controversy comes up have we heard that someone was "misquoted" or they "misspoke" or we're told that "the only point they were simply making was that …" and then some point that bears no resemblance to the one they made; or they were just "taken out of context?"
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