misrecalling

Verb

misrecall (third-person singular simple present misrecalls, present participle misrecalling, simple past and past participle misrecalled)

1. (transitive) To recall incorrectly.
   • That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times