MISSTATEMENT

n. 1 falsification, misreport, misquotation, miscitation, distortion, misrepresentation, misconstruction, misinterpretation, perversion, lie, falsehood, untruth, fabrication The prosecutor's indictment is a misstatement of the charges against the defendant 2 solecism, error, mistake, gaffe, faux pas, slip of the tongue, lapsus linguae, blunder, Slang howler, Brit bloomer, US and Canadian blooper For an educated man his speech is sprinkled with too many grammatical misstatements