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MISREPRESENTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A willful perversion of facts
Synonyms:
falsification; misrepresentation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A misleading falsehood
Synonyms:
deceit; deception; misrepresentation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
