(v. t.) To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) We will be delving into [the report], we will be reviewing that to see what is in there is accurate, which is inaccurate, which is a misstatement, which are examples that may be factual, may not be factual.” “Other parts of the country have shown outrage at this type of behavior by police,” said Mara Brown of Cleveland, an emergency medical technician, “but Cleveland has a history of using many types of devices – from the business leaders ignoring things to control of the media to political leaders favoring the status quo – to keep things quiet.” At the grocery store in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood where Jones was killed hardly anyone was around on Monday afternoon.
(2) We wish to correct the record, apologize to Dr. Birnstiel and Dr. Busslinger for this misstatement, and alert our readers to their letter, which is printed in our Letters section on page 243.
(3) But more specifically, this abuse can also specifically harm the shareholders, most of whom will be almost wholly unaware of the risks the companies in which they invest are taking: for example, the company earnings may be misstated, which will mean that the share price is overstated.
(4) But to America’s unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.
(5) Sanders also said Clinton “has misstated my view” on gun control.
(6) Adrian Bailey told BBC Radio 5 Live that Tesco executives could be asked to explain its £250m misstatement of first-half profits which wiped £2bn off its stock market value.
(7) Sanders argued: “The issues that impact people of South Carolina and the south are the same issues that impact the people of Vermont; that is that the middle class of our country is disappearing.” The Vermont senator, who told the Boston Globe’s editorial board on Thursday: “I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything,” made both explicit and veiled criticisms of Clinton over her late-to-the-party opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, her reliance on Super Pacs and for “misstating” his position on gun control.
(8) Last week Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland , two of Britain’s biggest banks, set aside a total of £900m for settlements related to rigging of the foreign exchange market, and the Serious Fraud Office launched a criminal investigation into a misstatement of profit guidance at Tesco .
(9) So why did all these fine firms miss what Hewlett-Packard now claims was a misstatement of Autonomy's accounts?
(10) The 1991 paper by Persinger and Makarec, while posing some interesting theoretical and speculative questions, misstates the magnitude of the effect size in the validation of the Hemisphericity Questionnaire and draws some unwarranted conclusions.
(11) "Fundamentally, the complaint fails to identify any fraud – establishing no material misstatements, no identified victims, and no actual harm," Barclays said in its response to the suit.
(12) The act, they said, would "help to blaze a trail of truthfulness and accurate disclosure in what has become a jungle of falsification, unjustified secrecy, and misstatement by statistic".
(13) Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC’s enforcement division, said: “Dark pools have a significant role in today’s equity marketplace, and the firms that run these venues must ensure that they do not make misstatements to subscribers about their material operations.” Barclays, which has a big operation in New York, said the bank was pleased to resolve the case.
(14) The Obama administration has admitted misstatements on the part of UN ambassador Susan Rice and others in the immediate wake of the attacks, which were initially portrayed as a spontaneous raid when in fact they were multi-pronged and organized.
(15) In its rebuttal, Barclays said: "Fundamentally, the complaint fails to identify any fraud – establishing no material misstatements, no identified victims, and no actual harm."
(16) "DeSmogBlog has received no direct communications from the Heartland Institute identifying any misstatement of fact in the "Climate Strategy" document," it said.
(17) The case boiled down to Drew's misstatements in her MySpace profile.
(18) Because something that we so often forget in the dialogue about security versus privacy is [that it is] really a misstatement of the issue, which is liberty versus security.
(19) General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, lied in 2012 that the NSA does not hold data on US citizens , and repeated similar misstatements, under oath, to Congress about the program: We're not authorized to do it [data collection on US citizens], nor do we do it.
(20) The same investigation found Price misstated the timing and value of his purchases in several instances.
Misword
Definition:
(v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.