Mistranslated

"Mistranslated" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Because Tom mistranslated one sentence, our company lost a lot of money.

Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected.

Tom, you've mistranslated it here.

I think this word is mistranslated.

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