misquotation

The controversy was suddenly diverted into a new channel, by a misquotation.

The phrase is actually a misquotation of the statement:

It also provides a check against misquotation, as it's easy for an attributed quote to be checked when the reference is available.

An exchange between two monks includes a similarly ironic misquotation:

He hasn't even heard of John Donne, let alone recognize a misquotation.

The most common misquotation - "Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

But a reporter who drew repeated charges of substantive misquotation would soon have a tarnished reputation.

He was properly zapped for that; an allusion is not a misquotation for political purposes.

Other translations have made Vital's misquotation more obvious.

This is a popular misquotation.

"the question includes a misquotation"

The very title is a small masterpiece of ironic wit, being a misquotation rather than an accurate transcription from Bacon's essays.

It was a misquotation, but Moss wasn't aboutto ruffle any feathers by saying so.

The misquotation would have been more difficult to engineer had there been an apostrophe after 'homosexuals.'

Schickel's misquotation makes no sense.

Ms. Meyers responded: "If there was a misquotation it was unintentional.

It is a small matter, but not irrelevant, that this striking mistake is commonly supported by a striking misquotation.

He is also clever at purposeful misquotation, as in his suggestion that Josef Stalin said, "Love knows no frontier."

One of the lines most closely associated with the film-"Play it again, Sam"-is a misquotation.

The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13, a deliberate misquotation of the passage which describes humanity as perceiving the world "through a glass darkly".

"A misquotation, Commissioner.

He forgot where he had read the misquotation from Shakespeare, but it seemed apposite to the spot he was in...

Despite protests by the Japanese Government and press, the American press has continued to repeat the misquotation, apparently relying on the original mistake.

Shakespeare, at a remove of four centuries, provides a hapless hunting ground for nice misinterpretations, either through misquotation or quoting out of context.