Definition of Misspoken

1. Verb. (past of misspeak) ¹

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Definition of Misspoken

1. misspeak [v] - See also: misspeak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misspoken

misspelled
misspeller
misspellers
misspelling
misspellings
misspells
misspelt
misspend
misspender
misspenders
misspending
misspends
misspense
misspent
misspoke
misspoken (current term)
missprision
missprisions
misstamp
misstamped
misstamping
misstamps
misstart
misstarted
misstarting
misstarts
misstate
misstated
misstatement
misstatements

Literary usage of Misspoken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Movement and Mental Imagery: Outlines of a Motor Theory of the Complexer by Margaret Floy Washburn (1916)
"As illustrations of this tendency they quote the running of tunes and phrases 'in the head,' the realization that one has misspoken one's self, ..."

2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1909)
"Then didst thou make answer, O swineherd Eumaeus: ' Old man, the tale that thou hast told in his praise is very good, and so far thou hast not misspoken ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Then didst thou make answer, O swineherd Eumaeus: ' Old man, the tale that thou hast told in his praise is very good, and so far thou hast not misspoken ..."

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