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Definition of Misspoken
1. misspeak [v] - See also: misspeak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misspoken
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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