misvoices

Verb

misvoice (third-person singular simple present misvoices, present participle misvoicing, simple past and past participle misvoiced)

1. To speak for in an incorrect and erroneous manner
   • Law is but the voice; government itself only the body; civilization is the essence, the spirit—the spirit of ages of progress and conquest from rude nature and ruder men—a spirit sometimes, alas! misvoiced; sometimes misembodied.1898, Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Isham G. Harris, page 165
2. To say with the wrong tone.
   • Ackroyd's solicitude for Eliot here seems to me punctilious and, though not misplaced, misvoiced: 'For a man who was peculiarly attentive to the manners and to the formal courtesies of "society", the behaviour of a deranged wife would inevitably lead to anxiety and a sense of shame not far from...2001, Christopher Ricks, Reviewery, page 64