contextomies

Noun

contextomy (countable and uncountable, plural contextomies)

1. (figuratively) The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression of what they said.
   • …saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.1964, Milton Mayer, What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings, page 33

   Synonyms:

   quote mining