misrepresentation

[ mis-rep-ri-zen-tey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act or state of being represented incorrectly, improperly, falsely, or unsatisfactorily:

   Your degree may be revoked if fraud, misrepresentation, or other violations of university standards are found to have occurred.

Other Words From

• pre·mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tion noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of misrepresentation¹

mis- ¹( def ) + represent ( def )

Example Sentences

The FTC also said Zoom misrepresented its handling of recorded calls saved to its cloud service.

From Fortune

He said that the women did receive support from the organization and that the nonprofit never misrepresented its mission.

From Washington Post

What alarmed Topol and other critics is that Hahn played along and badly misrepresented the facts, saying plasma transfusions would save 35 out of 100 covid-19 patients.

From MIT Technology Review

A deputy of Cetron’s lamented to the agency’s chief of staff that the order cited a “misrepresented and incomplete piece of data” to overstate the threat.

From ProPublica

A Maine company fired Moffo after less than a month as a welder when administrators discovered that he had misrepresented his work experience and not fully disclosed his criminal record, according to the company’s responses to the complaint.

From ProPublica

To refer to these nights of protest as clashes with police would be a misrepresentation of the situation.

From The Daily Beast

In his article, Robert Cherry begins with a misrepresentation.

From The Daily Beast

Criticism is one thing, and that's always fair game, but outright misrepresentation is indefensible.

From The Daily Beast

Debate, as we saw last Wednesday night, sometimes over-rewards the glib one-liner, or incentivizes stubborn misrepresentation.

From The Daily Beast

Such a concerted campaign of misrepresentation will be hard to chalk up to the actions of a few rogue police officers.

From The Daily Beast

When this is done a misrepresentation constitutes a breach of warranty and the contract becomes void.

From Project Gutenberg

Great error and misrepresentation, his lordship said, prevailed on this subject throughout the country.

From Project Gutenberg

If I seem to have posed before you as a noble-minded philanthropist, I have been guilty of careless misrepresentation.

From Project Gutenberg

If, on the other hand, he is governed by commercial considerations only, the misrepresentation will probably be perpetuated.

From Project Gutenberg

Duplicity and misrepresentation are not confined to patent medicines.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• distortion
• exaggeration
• fabrication
• falsehood
• falsification
• misstatement
• untruth