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# misspoke

«misspoke» in Mova's school dictionary: **said something untrue or wrong — often to avoid admitting…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

phrase (verb, past: misspeak, misspeaks, misspoke, misspoken)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, official) said something untrue or wrong — often to avoid admitting a lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#m1)

2) (literal) said the wrong word by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used by politicians and officials to take back a false or embarrassing statement. Register: official, spin; all regions.

### examples

- The minister said she misspoke about the numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#x1)
- Sorry, I misspoke — I meant Tuesday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#x2)
- News: The spokesman later said he had misspoken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#x3)
- Chat: «misspoke» = got caught [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#x4)
- The teacher misspoke and called me by my sister's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/#x5)

### note

It can be a real slip of the tongue, or a way to hide a lie. Plain words: said something wrong or false.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misspoke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misspoke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.