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- verb Present participle of
misphrase .
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Examples
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He has spent far too much of his life screaming logic at disinterested boobs to tolerate misphrasing.
Nicholas Brown: Another Depressing Screed on Global Warming 2008
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Something even happened in a phone conversation last week that I'm tempted to bring up again, because while what I said was an honest case of misphrasing, her reply to it was deliberately aimed at one of my sore points, I'm pretty sure.
anne-jumps Diary Entry anne-jumps 2001
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(And for another, a tragic misphrasing made it sound as if I wanted to broadcast porno to teens, instead of the twenty-somethings who listen to teen music.
Two Random Items 2006
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