misstate

[ mis-steyt ]

/ mɪsˈsteɪt /

to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.

Origin of misstate

First recorded in 1640–50; mis-¹ + state

misreport, falsify, alter, distort.

mis·state·ment, noun mis·stat·er, noun

misspeak, misspell, misspelling, misspend, misspent, misstate, misstep, misstrike, missus, missy, mist

This article has been changed to correct an earlier version that misstated the unemployment rate.

Hold Up, Hipsters: Stop Obsessing Over Oregon |Nina Strochlic |January 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Names, dates, and places have been misstated, but such inadvertences are not misleading.

Oswald Langdon |Carson Jay Lee
You will not suppose, from anything contained in the answer to my Memorial, that I had misstated any part of the first answer.

The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII |Various
Indeed, the phrenological school have positively misconceived and misstated the principles of cerebral development.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 |Various

Now the facts have to be misstated in this way in order to produce that temper which makes for war.

The Great Illusion |Norman Angell
And I could wish Lady Byron herself to read it, that she may have it in her power to mark anything mistaken or misstated.

Lady Byron Vindicated |Harriet Beecher Stowe

misstate

/ (ˌmɪsˈsteɪt) /

(tr) to state incorrectly

misstatement, noun