Misstatement

Noun

 * 1) A statement that is false. Usually indicating an error rather than an intentional lie.

Adjectives for Misstatement
willful; unconsidered; ungenerous; planned; leading.

Thesaurus
abstractionism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, clerical error, coloring, confabulation, corrigendum, deformation, distortion, equivocation, erratum, error, exaggeration, expressionism, fabrication, failure, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, fault, faute, faux pas, gaffe, garbling, howler, human error, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, lapsus linguae, lie, litotes, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misdrawing, misidentification, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, miss, mistake, misteaching, misunderstanding, misuse, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, solecism, straining, twisting, typo, typographical error, understatement, untruth