misnarrate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ narrate

Verb[edit]

misnarrate (third-person singular simple present misnarrates, present participle misnarrating, simple past and past participle misnarrated)

  1. (transitive) To narrate incorrectly.
    • 1851 August, Salignus, “The Late Rev. Professor Street”, in The Benares Magazine, volume 6, number 28, page 658:
      Was it kindness to misrepresent his dying words and misnarrate the details of his funeral?
    • 2007, Alan W. Friedman, Party Pieces, page 131:
      Krapp can see only the fool he was, not the fool he is; all his versions misperceive and misnarrate themselves.
    • 2014, Emma Percy, What Clergy Do: Especially when it looks like nothing:
      So too churches can misnarrate their story by inappropriate comparisons or a fixation on the wrong criteria for success.