MISSPOKE Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

misspoke

verb

past tense of misspeak

as in misinterpreted

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Without a way to connect those relationships, critical context gets lost, or misinterpreted, at every handoff.

— Tom Dunlop, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
But in my experience, if used on its own to diagnose, it can be easily misinterpreted.

— Andrew McLean, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of misinterpreted

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An article on Wednesday about the repatriation of migrants to Malaysia misstated the United Nations’ position on whether the Rohingya community had suffered a genocide.

— New York Times, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated that fact.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of misstated

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The men have denied wrongdoing, saying that the encounters were consensual or misrepresented in the suit, according to The New York Times.

— Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2026
Fielder becomes obsessed with this detail, seeing it as a test case for Holmes’s claims that she has been misrepresented in the media and that her memory is reliable.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of misrepresented

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Americans may disagree on solutions, but many share the belief that financial incentives have distorted the system beyond recognition.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Working from a plus-size model’s body as her starting point for pattern-making, silhouettes were subsequently distorted, creating a second layer that appeared to slip and warp around the body.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of distorted

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Grant has since cooked with seven families highlighted in To Die For, and has shared her pilgrimages to the gravesites with the goods themselves to pay respect.

— Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
While at Himmah Hub, the couple reunited with women who had cooked for families from London’s Grenfell Tower block, which was devastated by a huge fire in 2017.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of cooked

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In earlier local elections, ballot boxes were stuffed or stolen, and paper ballots were routinely falsified, according to Brazil's electoral authority.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
In earlier elections, ballot boxes were stuffed or stolen, and individual votes were routinely falsified, according to Brazil’s electoral authority.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of falsified

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