Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wrong speech; evil report; defamation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Wrong speech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Wrong speech.
Etymologies
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mis- + speech
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Examples
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We're guessing he'll claim misspeech, wrong decade or something.
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But, it's hard to feel sorry for Hillary who spent so much time bashing Obama for a much less severe "misspeech."
Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment 2009
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