MISREPRESENTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A willful perversion of facts

Synonyms:

falsification; misrepresentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("misrepresentation" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misrepresentation"):

distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)

equivocation; tergiversation (falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language)

fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

Meaning:

A misleading falsehood

Synonyms:

deceit; deception; misrepresentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("misrepresentation" is a kind of...):

falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misrepresentation"):

bill of goods (communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable)

humbug; snake oil (communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive)

half-truth (a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead)

facade; window dressing (a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant)

exaggeration; magnification; overstatement (making to seem more important than it really is)

snow job (a long and elaborate misrepresentation)

dissembling; feigning; pretence; pretense (pretending with intention to deceive)

blind; subterfuge (something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity)

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)

Derivation:

misrepresent (represent falsely)

misrepresent (tamper, with the purpose of deception)