Definition of "misstate" [mis•state]

• To state wrongly or falsely. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But people routinely misstate the truth in online profiles, about everything from their age to their name."
• "I don't want to misstate to the Court exactly what it authorized to do because I have not read the particular order in quite some time."
• "Because I just don't want to misstate exactly what we were authorized to do."