Misrecount
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
"I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone."
Example
More examples"I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone."
Etymology
From mis- + recount.
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