mischaracterize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Mr. Toth’s commentary and the State Armor report also mischaracterize CJP’s judicial education efforts in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nevertheless, “Devil in Disguise” interrogates the police’s tendency to mischaracterize his victims, fueling the media and the public’s subsequent rush to cast the dead as somehow deserving of their fate.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
Harris’ team said it was aware of concerns that high-income individuals might try to mischaracterize their income as tips, to lower their tax liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
“People sometimes mischaracterize U.K. security policy as being a poodle of the U.S.,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Just leave it to the haters to mischaracterize things.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2023
In particular, she and others argue that police and prosecutors mischaracterized the DNA found on the water bottle as conclusive when it was anything but.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Some of you may be thinking I’ve mischaracterized the Bowdens since past versions of “Cape Fear” establish Max as the problem.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
But as so commonly happens, young people’s needs are mischaracterized or ignored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“PSKY has repeatedly mischaracterized the regulatory review process by suggesting its proposal will sail through, misleading WBD stockholders about the real risk of their regulatory challenges around the world,” Netflix said in its statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
And he didn’t want to see his beliefs mischaracterized, or his work ridiculed in the book I was writing.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, last week called Amodei a liar for mischaracterizing the Pentagon’s offer and accused him of trying to play God.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
But he devoted a sum total of fewer than six pages to this radical claim and spent most of them mischaracterizing Supreme Court precedent.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
She said those who are mischaracterizing her son based on Monday’s events were uninformed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
He grants vanishingly few in-person interviews, he prefers image-making to explaining his images in words, and he’s skittish about journalists mischaracterizing him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
"He has an extensive historical museum that examines World War Two," Cruz told Insider, adding that the media is "deliberately" mischaracterizing the nature of Crow's collection to further damage Thomas' reputation.
From Salon ● May 5, 2023
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