misstatement

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstatement
Noun
  • Sometimes, a bond sell-off is triggered by misinformation or something that isn't justified by economic fundamentals.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The spread of misinformation about fluoride also plays a role.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.
    Sam Corbin, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.
    Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their suffering has often been dismissed as exaggeration, hysteria, or simply the cost of existence.
    Jayne Mattingly, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Unfortunately, this plot element isn’t an exaggeration for dramatic effect.
    Maria Flynn, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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