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- noun obsolete Speaking ill;
defamation ,slander . - noun The fact or instance of
speaking falsely orunclearly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm sorry .... if you are unable to see that "misspeaking" is a polite way to say someone is "lying" – then the "retarded" label fits.
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Even if this most recent sample of misspeaking is innocent (which I suspect isn't) she should know better.
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For Bush cultists like troll, misspeaking is a very bad thing - unless you are a Republican, in which case it is ok to say bald-face lies in order to invade a nation that poses no threat.
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And let me get this straight – you have no objection to a judge who contributed money to folks who hate, hate, HATE Delay judging this case … you just object to DeGuerin misspeaking about exactly where these t-shirts are being sold and you think he (DeGuerin) should be sued/sanctioned for this statement?
Think Progress » BREAKING: DeLay’s Lawyer Lies About MoveOn 2005
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We the People says: you have no objection to a judge who contributed money to folks who hate, hate, HATE Delay judging this case†¦ you just object to DeGuerin misspeaking about exactly where these t-shirts are being sold and you think he (DeGuerin) should be sued/sanctioned for this statement?
Think Progress » BREAKING: DeLay’s Lawyer Lies About MoveOn 2005
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Obviously, this is another episode of John McCain misspeaking again, like Shiite for Al Quada and Sunnis for Iran or how it is like shopping in a fair, somewhere in Indiana, when you’re shopping at an Iraqi Bazaar, wearing a bulletproof flak jacket, with an armored regiment and attack helicopters as escort. —
McCain Warns of an Obama Court - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Unfortunately, the misspeaking is a reminder of his age.
My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal... Ann Althouse 2008
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But I have to wonder about something; given his severe and extensive memory losses, and given the vast amount of time which went by during which he was repeatedly “misspeaking”: just how is it that he even recalls misspeaking?
Who is Miss Spoke? 2007
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Lincoln didn't have the problem of "misspeaking" that she has.
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Even if you give her the benefit of the doubt and consider her remarks the result of exhaustion or more "misspeaking," they have the very real negative effect of making her look like a race baiter.
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