misrepresentation
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English
Etymology
From mis- + representation or misrepresent + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
misrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural misrepresentations)
- Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
- Hypernyms: falsehood, untruth
- Hyponyms: misreport, misstatement
- Near-synonyms: mischaracterization, misportrayal
- 1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, London: Trübner & Co., page 1:
- […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, […]
- Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
Related terms
Translations
erroneous statements, or the act of making these
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “misrepresentation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.