misnarrate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ narrate.

Verb

misnarrate (third-person singular simple present misnarrates, present participle misnarrating, simple past and past participle misnarrated)

1. (transitive) To narrate incorrectly.
   • 1851 August, Salignus, “The Late Rev. Professor Street”, in The Benares Magazine, volume 6, number 28, page 658:

     Was it kindness to misrepresent his dying words and misnarrate the details of his funeral?

   • 2007, Alan W. Friedman, Party Pieces, page 131:

     Krapp can see only the fool he was, not the fool he is; all his versions misperceive and misnarrate themselves.

   • 2014, Emma Percy, What Clergy Do: Especially when it looks like nothing:

     So too churches can misnarrate their story by inappropriate comparisons or a fixation on the wrong criteria for success.