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mis·rep·re·sent

(mĭs-rĕp′rĭ-zĕnt′)

tr.v. mis·rep·re·sent·ed, mis·rep·re·sent·ing, mis·rep·re·sents

1. To give an incorrect or misleading representation of.

2. To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.

mis·rep′re·sen·ta′tion n.

mis·rep′re·sen′ta·tive (-zĕn′tə-tĭv) adj.

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Noun	1.	misrepresentation - a misleading falsehood deception, deceit bill of goods - communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable; "they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car" humbug, snake oil - communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive falsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statement half-truth - a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead window dressing, facade - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant overstatement, exaggeration, magnification - making to seem more important than it really is snow job - a long and elaborate misrepresentation dissembling, feigning, pretense, pretence - pretending with intention to deceive subterfuge, blind - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" 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
	2.	misrepresentation - a willful perversion of facts falsification actus reus, wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing - activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" overrefinement, twisting, straining, torture, distortion - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean tergiversation, equivocation - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language lying, prevarication, fabrication - the deliberate act of deviating from the truth dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving

misrepresentation

noun

An untrue declaration:

canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.

Informal: fish story, tall tale.

Slang: whopper.

Translations

travisamento

misrepresentation

[ˌmɪsreprɪzenˈteɪʃən] N [of facts] → tergiversación f, desfiguración f (Jur) → declaración f falsa
this report is a misrepresentation of what I said → este informe tergiversa mis palabras

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

misrepresentation

[mɪsˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃ^ən] n [facts, data] → déformation f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

misrepresentation

n → falsche Darstellung; (of facts also) → Verdrehung f; (of theory) → Verfälschung f; to be accused of misrepresentation → der Verdrehung (gen) → von Tatsachen beschuldigt werden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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principal fact, upon the misrepresentation of which you discarded

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I have unfolded to you a complication of dangers to which you would be exposed, should you permit that sacred knot which binds the people of America together be severed or dissolved by ambition or by avarice, by jealousy or by misrepresentation. In the sequel of the inquiry through which I propose to accompany you, the truths intended to be inculcated will receive further confirmation from facts and arguments hitherto unnoticed.

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or under what misrepresentation can you here impose upon others?"

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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.

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Isabel instantly protested against this misrepresentation of what she had really said, "Oh, Mr.

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So convincing was all this misrepresentation that even sincere ministers in the pulpit praised the Black Hundreds while regretting the necessity of violence.

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Cadwallader, and I believe this is false too," said Dorothea, with indignant energy; "at least, I feel sure it is a misrepresentation. I will not hear any evil spoken of Mr.

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As no one makes any profit by the sale, there is no longer any stimulus to extravagance, and no misrepresentation; no cheating, no adulteration or imitation, no bribery or

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"I am not at all surprised," she replied, "to find that my adopted daughter's interference has exposed her to misrepresentation. She ought to have remonstrated with me privately before she interfered.

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For a while Griswold's malignant misrepresentations colored the public estimate of Poe as man and as writer.

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And shark-headers is open to misrepresentations. And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit.

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The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has served Rs992 million tax notice on ARY Communications (ARY), claiming that the private television network has evaded taxes through misrepresentation, concealment and misuse of exemptions.

FBR issues Rs992m tax notice to private tv channel

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