Meaning

To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors..

Definitions by Sense

1. To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.
2. To talk inappropriately, misleadingly, mistakenly, or otherwise untruely.
3. The act or content of mistalking.

Example Sentences

The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error.

Freud merges the two communicative scenes in his writing : the restricted clinical one with its specificity of talking, mistalking, listening , mislistening, and the larger public one of writing and reading.

Amazed, the audience looked at each other. What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?

But the only thing that he retained of this first study was a certain "breathlessness" which is not absent in Shelley, but which assumes quite different form in Browning, and which is in fact the right name for his much mistalked of "obscurity."

I don't aim to mistalk ye. I jest want to tell ye how it was.

For 11 months he's been mistalking about my record, misdirecting it, misstating it.

And then also, those who out of their own self-righteousness or disappointments for those being processed start to misbehave or mistalk and even lose their faith because of this.

Nevertheless I went, "what? Tell me right away, I got kids to play with" got kids to play with? I mistalked, I really did, they're not my kids.

Word Forms

• mistalks
• mistalking
• mistalked

Synonyms for mistalk

When Should You Use Mistalk?

Use mistalk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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