misquotation

[ mis-kwoh-tey-shuh n ]

/ ˌmɪs kwoʊˈteɪ ʃən /

the act of misquoting.

an instance or occasion of misquoting or of being misquoted.

Origin of misquotation

First recorded in 1765–75; mis-¹ + quotation

My correspondence about the misquotation of Tennyson has quieted itself since the fifth letter.

George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3) |George Eliot
It was, for one thing, Mary's habit of misquotation that got upon Ledgar's nerves.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917 |Various
Katharine, in spite of her emotion, was quick to catch the misquotation.

Privy Seal |Ford Madox Ford
There is a quotation, or rather a misquotation, from it in the Preface to Alastor.

Oxford Lectures on Poetry |Andrew Cecil Bradley

Byron might have turned in his grave at having his dissolute stiff-neck so wrung for him by misquotation.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters |Anonymous