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misstatement

noun

Etymology

From mis- + statement.

  1. derived from stātus
  2. derived from estat
  3. inherited from stat
  4. suffixed as statement — “state + ment”
  5. prefixed as misstatement — “mis + statement”

Definitions

  1. Something stated wrongly

    Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.

    • his gubernatorial campaign, noteworthy mostly for his seemingly daily racist and otherwise offensive misstatements

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misstatement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA