5 collocations for misstating

It is true, that wherever the interest of a witness is involved, it has an immediate tendency to make him misstate facts: but so would personal ill-willso would his sympathiesso would any strong feeling.

In what we have said of him as a lawyer we are sure that in every essential respect we have not overstated or misstated his powers and characteristics as they were known and conceded by lawyers and judges in Massachusetts.

He has utterly misunderstood and misstated Pre-Raphaelitism, which will thus be one day the weaker for his support.

And this mistake is practical; for we see, that, in three of his examples, out of the four above, the author himself misstates the quantity, because he disregards the accent: the verb re-cord', being accented on the second syllable, is an iambus; and the nouns rec'-ord and man'-ner, being accented on the first, are trochees; and just as plainly so, as is the word

He has utterly misunderstood and misstated Pre-Raphaelitism, which will thus be one day the weaker for his support.

5 collocations for  misstating