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misstate (third-person singular simple present misstates, present participle misstating, simple past and past participle misstated)

1. (transitive) To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.

   Coordinate term: miscalculate (accounting)

   Near-synonym: misreport

   The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?

   • 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 September 2017, Asia Pacific‎:

     Correction: August 21, 2017
     An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.

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• etatisms, Mattises, stateism, mistaste