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/mɪsɹˌɛpɹɪzˈɛntˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /mɪsˌɹɛpɹɪzɛnˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /mɪsˌɹɛpɹɪzɛnˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a misleading falsehood
- a willful perversion of facts
How To Use misrepresentation In A Sentence
- Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
- They have been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
- The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
- During the neverending arguments about women priests even the women concerned were mostly scrupulous about not using the ‘pagan’ term priestess, extraordinary misrepresentations of Jesus' followers were cited as ‘proof’ that women were not meant to be members of the clergy. The Templar Revelation
- Mr Buthelezi on Wednesday criticised the media in general for what he termed their blatant misrepresentation of the IFP position at multiparty talks. ANC Daily News Briefing
- These involve both factual distortions and misrepresentations of the Geneva Convention on POWs.
- I think there's a compelling case to be made that, by and large, an appropriator from a dominant culture carrying out such an act is likely to be doing so for negative motives and to negative results, that historically such cross-cultural sacrilege is motivated by misrepresentation and discrimination and aimed towards furthering misrepresentation and discrimination. Archive 2006-09-01
- As with misrepresentation, certain bars operate to prevent rescission.
- All quotes, except those cited by link, consist entirely of hearsay, malefactions, and poorly-conjured misrepresentations.
- This is an unfortunate misrepresentation of my remarks, and misleads readers about the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.