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
“The claims set forth in the lawsuit grossly mischaracterize their interactions, which occurred over a decade, and some accusations over 2 decades, ago. All these allegations are contradicted by the real facts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 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
“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
Wright also said Wood’s $975 million estimate of total economic impact mischaracterized the study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
And this came days after fabricated videos, manipulated stills and mischaracterized reports related to the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tore across the Internet.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
She knows just what it’s like to be loved, revered, misunderstood, mischaracterized, hated, shunned, laughed at and laughed with.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
“Much of what’s been reported has mischaracterized how pricing works on Instacart,” a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
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
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
There is and was no impropriety other than the D.A. mischaracterizing what has occurred and attempting to insert the church where it does not belong,” Pouw said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023
"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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