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MISREPRESENTATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does misrepresentation mean?
• MISREPRESENTATION (noun)
The noun MISREPRESENTATION has 2 senses:
2. a willful perversion of facts
Familiarity information: MISREPRESENTATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A misleading falsehood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
deceit; deception; misrepresentation
Hypernyms ("misrepresentation" is a kind of...):
falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misrepresentation"):
bill of goods (communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable)
humbug; snake oil (communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive)
half-truth (a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead)
facade; window dressing (a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant)
exaggeration; magnification; overstatement (making to seem more important than it really is)
snow job (a long and elaborate misrepresentation)
dissembling; feigning; pretence; pretense (pretending with intention to deceive)
blind; subterfuge (something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity)
hanky panky; hocus-pocus; jiggery-pokery; skulduggery; skullduggery; slickness; trickery (verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way)
duplicity; fraudulence (a fraudulent or duplicitous representation)
equivocation; evasion (a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth)
Derivation:
misrepresent (represent falsely)
misrepresent (tamper, with the purpose of deception)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A willful perversion of facts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
falsification; misrepresentation
Hypernyms ("misrepresentation" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misrepresentation"):
distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)
equivocation; tergiversation (falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language)
fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Context examples
In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? or under what misrepresentation can you here impose upon others?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They retired whispering together; and, though her delicate sensibility did not take immediate alarm, and lay it down as fact, that Captain Tilney must have heard some malevolent misrepresentation of her, which he now hastened to communicate to his brother, in the hope of separating them forever, she could not have her partner conveyed from her sight without very uneasy sensations.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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