Misquote
Misquote verb - Quote incorrectly.
Quote
Quote verb - To give as an example.
Both words in one sentence
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If the quote and the misquote both occur in the same medium, there is an Unreliable Narrator or possibly a Flip-Flop of God.
Source: Beam Me Up, Scotty! - Another Ben Franklin misquote is "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." The real quote - from a letter - was about rain, and how it makes grapes for wine grow, as shown here.
Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics - Everyone Is Gay: Yahtzee theorized that everyone is a burly gay man in Yahtzee's Minecraft version of Rapture, since he thinks 'men' sounds more homoerotic than 'man' in his slight misquote "No Gods or Kings, only Men", with the original quote being "No Gods or Kings, Only Man".
Source: Lets Play / Let's Drown Out
Cite this Source
Quote and Misquote. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/misquote/quote
Misquote & Quote. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/misquote/quote>.
Quote or Misquote. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/misquote/quote.
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