mischaracterize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
They also fret that the information released could mischaracterize the overall findings or provide enough clues about identities to damage the reputations of lab associates or co-authors not involved in the misconduct.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
LaSalle thought that was fine—but the Court of Appeals later repudiated the decision, holding that a waiver of appeal can’t mischaracterize what rights are waived.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2022
Baldoni denied the allegations and argued in court filings that the dispute had been mischaracterized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
But three former FDA officials closely familiar with how the agency created the criteria to assess the peptides in the first place say Kennedy has mischaracterized their work.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
The official also said a Uniqure executive had mischaracterized the FDA’s request for how to compare the therapy to a placebo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 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
If we return to our history, there are so many aspects missing, so many mischaracterized details.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The pair sparred again soon after, when Mullin told Paul he was mischaracterizing the remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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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