Misrecount

Quick meaning: Misrecount is a verb meaning To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.

Meaning

To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.

Example Sentences

So far from the Queen having ordered him back, he would not have written but that his coming back would be misrecounted to her if he did not.

I write, without a particle of feeling against Mr. Lillie, for I know him to be altogether friendly to my late colleague and myself, and even while inadvertently misrecounting her history, he writes of her in a most reverential tone.

Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.

Word Forms

• misrecounts
• misrecounting
• misrecounted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misrecollect, recount, misrecover, misrehearse, misrepeat, retell.

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