0 past simple and past participle of misquote --
1 to repeat something someone has said in a way that is not accurate: --
I never said that at all - the press misquoted me.
Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
I think that he has been misquoted to-day, though unwittingly.
We all know how utterances, particularly political ones, are misunderstood and misquoted.
Moreover, it has had and has economists—some of whom are much misquoted today.
I do not think that he can complain of being misquoted in the country.
She was simply repeating a piece of misquoted history.
He was rather misquoted afterwards by several people.
That was not the convincing denial of a man who had been grossly misquoted.
That, too, was perfectly fair, except that he misquoted me—although that is not unusual.