misphrasing
/mɪsˈfreɪzɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of misphrase: the act of expressing something in an awkward, unclear, or incorrect way.
- He kept misphrasing his request, so nobody understood what he wanted.
- Misphrasing the warning could lead to serious accidents.
- The translator was misphrasing idioms, which changed their meaning.
noun
- An instance of expressing something poorly or incorrectly.
- That misphrasing in the email caused a lot of unnecessary worry.
- Her speech had one misphrasing that the media focused on.
- The report contained several misphrasings that had to be corrected.
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