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
Greg Burt, vice president of the Christian-based California Family Council, contended that opponents of book bans mischaracterize the efforts of organizations like his to control access to some books by minors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
Just leave it to the haters to mischaracterize things.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2023
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
Baldoni denied the allegations, arguing that the dispute had been mischaracterized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Staley, who left his job as Barclays CEO in 2021 over a U.K. government investigation into whether he mischaracterized his Epstein ties, has since said he regretted his relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
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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