misquotation

noun
🔊/ˌmɪskwəʊˈteɪʃn/
🔊/ˌmɪskwəʊˈteɪʃn/
[countable, uncountable]
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  1. a group of words or short piece of writing taken from a book, play, speech, etc. and repeated because it is interesting or useful, but with mistakes in the way it is repeated