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
After receiving significant backlash, Essayli accused another gun rights organization of “adding words to mischaracterize my statement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 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
He rebuked the claims and said he was dismayed that the magazine would mischaracterize a “respectful relationship” as something untoward.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 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
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
Farley said Duffy’s comments, made public in a letter Tuesday, mischaracterized Ford’s operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Some of you may be thinking I’ve mischaracterized the Bowdens since past versions of “Cape Fear” establish Max as the nightmare.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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
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
Among its claims, the county alleged the oil companies engaged in a conspiracy to mislead the public and violated consumer protection rules by mischaracterizing the dangers of their products.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
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
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