misrecount

present singular third person misrecounts · participle present misrecounting · participle past misrecounted · past misrecounted

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

   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.

   1902, Sir William Monson, Michael Oppenheim, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, page 341

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   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.

   1895, Edward Maitland, “An Explanation By Mr. E. Maitland”, in William Thomas Stead, editor, Borderland: A Quarterly Review and Index, volume 2, page 178

   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.

   1998, ESQ. - Volume 44, page 139