Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
- n. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- n. In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
Wiktionary
- n. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
- n. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- n. In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a willful perversion of facts
- n. a misleading falsehood
Etymologies
- misrepresent + -ation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This whole age of misrepresentation is really going to hurt later on I think.”
“As misrepresentation is not necessary, it is of questionable importance to achieving the goal of getting attention and bringing about political results.”
“MikeGene: Yet not all misrepresentation is overstatement.”
“MikeGene: Or are you now going to deny that misrepresentation is a core feature of political activism and campaigning?”
“Or are you now going to deny that misrepresentation is a core feature of political activism and campaigning?”
“Provan, the unstated premise of your intentional misrepresentation is that you are in love with Richard Dawkins.”
“Bias by misrepresentation is used to create friction within opponents of "the Party" by exaggerating or misreporting the words of Tories so as to bring discord and dispute where there is "harmony".”
“But that is ok, we have come to expect nothing but lies and misrepresentation from the right; well let me take that back, we also expect them to come armed and threaten anyone who does not look just like them or agree to their extremist views.”
“The rhetoric of fear and misrepresentation is powerful, but I do not believe it will defeat the strongest call for healthcare reform by the American people this country has ever seen.”
“It seems that misrepresentation is all you can do …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misrepresentation’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
contraindications, contradistinction, conventionalising, contextualisation, consubstantiation, constitutionality, constitutionalism, conscientiousness, congregationalist, contemporaneously, contextualization, comprehensibility and 634 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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I am the law!
Words I learnt at law school
appeal, blackletter, contract, dictum, headnote, judgment, litigation, malfeasance, negligence, plaintiff, quantum, remedy and 216 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Intellectual Ammunition
paradox, sine qua non, paradigm, discourse, ideology, precursor, emergent, imperialist, neo-colonialism, hegemony, unipolar, democratization and 60 more...
Tweets
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bilby ... as compared to guiding falsehoods? Dec 9, 2008