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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mistell .
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Examples
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With the knowledge he had of mankind, he knew it would be mistold.
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I thought it would be funnier in the first person, but I kinda mistold the joke a little bit and I think some people thought that, in fact, it was an anthem for square people.
Name That Movie Mondays! (Vol. 7: Special Huey Lewis & the News edition) | EW.com 2008
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They completely mistold the facts behind a story on the Catholic church, and I quit watching them entirely that day around 1983 because I did not know whether or not what I was hearing BS.
Jeffrey Rosen made quite a few errors in his NYT Magazine article about John Paul Stevens. Ann Althouse 2007
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And they looked also at the lady beside me, though half the story of how at last she had come to me was unknown or mistold.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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And they looked also at the lady beside me, though half the story of how at last she had come to me was unknown or mistold.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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But then, again, there is this safety, that let the story be ever so mistold — let the fiction be ever so far removed from the truth, no critic short of a Cabinet Minister himself can convict the narrator of error.
Phineas Finn 2004
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And they looked also at the lady beside me, though half the story of how at last she had come to me was unknown or mistold.
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911
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And they looked also at the lady beside me, though half the story of how at last she had come to me was unknown or mistold.
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And they looked also at the lady beside me, though half the story of how at last she had come to me was unknown or mistold.
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Fallopius is mistold, as indicated above, it need hardly be said that the story of Stensen is never so much as alluded to.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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