mistwist

To twist incorrectly or by mistake.

And as for the amelioration of the revenue in consonance with the changed and up to date conditions of the trade the Bureau has never been known to be guilty of any ideas in that direction with the possible exception of mistwisting the statutes to oppress the trade and hinder its development.

"The boys is all het up over the way they've been did in the game," he muttered, "an' if I was to butt in they'd likely mistwist my meanin'. […]"

An instance of mistwisting.

There is a great square box in which glass that has been spoiled is cast aside, worthless through the single mistwist of a wrist perhaps, or perhaps a flaw is started in the early stages of transformation, that is not discovered until many dollars worth of work has been done upon the little square piece of glass that first came into the factory.

To Pelagius, a personally irreproachable man according to what little view of him emerges from the shadows of personal obscurity, "sin" was not a basic mistwist in the human character. It represented momentary, isolated, individual acts of willful evil.