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- verb Present participle of
mistell .
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Examples
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While it's interesting to hear a director say suicide is cinematically dull, what's really dull is the culturally dominant take on what "freaks" are all about and an apparently deliberate mistelling of Arbus' approach to her artistic work.
Archive 2006-11-01 Kay Olson 2006
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While it's interesting to hear a director say suicide is cinematically dull, what's really dull is the culturally dominant take on what "freaks" are all about and an apparently deliberate mistelling of Arbus' approach to her artistic work.
The real Diane Arbus and "Fur" Kay Olson 2006
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"This varlet messenger, may be, is mistelling the news," said Master
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Emma Leslie
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Probably mistelling an old story, and taking to himself the merit of
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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Smith assumes that Vanity Fair's version is a mistelling -- an embellishment -- of the
Roger Ailes 2010
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