misrepresentation

mis·rep·re·sent  (ms-rpr-znt)

tr.v. mis·rep·re·sent·ed, mis·rep·re·sent·ing, mis·rep·re·sents

1. To give an incorrect or misleading representation of.

2. To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.

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mis·repre·sen·tation n.

mis·repre·senta·tive (-znt-tv) adj.

mis·repre·senter n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	misrepresentation - a misleading falsehood               deception, deceit bill of goods - communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable; "they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car" humbug, snake oil - communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive falsehood, untruth, falsity - a false statement half-truth - a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead window dressing, facade - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant overstatement, exaggeration, magnification - making to seem more important than it really is snow job - a long and elaborate misrepresentation dissembling, feigning, pretense, pretence - pretending with intention to deceive subterfuge, blind - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way duplicity, fraudulence - a fraudulent or duplicitous representation equivocation, evasion - a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
	2.	misrepresentation - a willful perversion of facts         falsification actus reus, wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing - activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" overrefinement, twisting, straining, torture, distortion - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean tergiversation, equivocation - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language lying, prevarication, fabrication - the deliberate act of deviating from the truth dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving

Translations

misrepresentation [ˌmɪsreprɪzenˈteɪʃən] N [of facts] → tergiversación f, desfiguración f (Jur) → declaración f falsa
this report is a misrepresentation of what I said → este informe tergiversa mis palabras

misrepresentation [mɪsˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃ^ən] n [facts, data] → déformation f

misrepresentation

n → falsche Darstellung; (of facts also) → Verdrehung f; (of theory) → Verfälschung f; to be accused of misrepresentation → der Verdrehung (gen) → von Tatsachen beschuldigt werden