What is "misrepresent"

Usage examples of "misrepresent".

With her cousin Miriam she could sympathize in a way impossible to Spence, who, by-the-bye, somewhat misrepresented his wife in the account he gave to Mallard of their Sunday experiences.

Let no one, while this System is still in its infancy, misconceive its character, belittle its significance or misrepresent its purpose.

Besieged by solicitations for products and services we neither want nor need, misrepresented and misgoverned by corrupt politicians beholden to multinational megacorporations, and reduced to involuntary servitude by usurious financial institutions, we are not so much consumers as we are in danger of being consumed.

Balanced within the tension of opposites, the argument that Kundera consistently misrepresents women or fails to offer alternatives to their abuse and mistreatment is as viable as the claim that he exposes, critiques, and deconstructs, even though this double possibility must mean that the edge of both arguments is dulled.

Helena, I am far from supposing that those who undertook to be the medium of communication between him and the public have misrepresented what he said.

In fact, in light of the ansible attack, they might think she was trying to misrepresent herself if she changed her story.

After begging pardon for having intruded upon your family at these hours, I must now tell you that my cousin, Count Melvil, was some time ago so much misrepresented to his mother by certain malicious informers, who delight in sowing discord in private families, that she actually believed her son an extravagant spendthrift, who had not only consumed his remittances in the most riotous scenes of disorder, but also indulged a pernicious appetite for gaming, to such a degree, that he had lost all his clothes and jewels at play.

Half the time, they misrepresented the facts, then insinuated the police were at fault for not finding the killer.

Debates in Parliament are probably not misrepresented in the press, but with a House full of deadheads they are growing less and less interesting and only about four newspapers now give them prominence.

It succeeded in doing this, and also in being as curiously misunderstood and misrepresented as if it had been a political harangue.

If you’d seen some of the lovingly but inaccurately written stories I’ve seen, including a film script that had me cringing in fear that it would be produced, you’d understand how I feel about having my literary child misrepresented.

If Tom Sawyer enjoyed himself more in watching a dog play with a pinch-bug in church than in listening to a doctrinal sermon, if he had a better time playing hookey than in attending the execrably dull school, Mark Twain is eager to expose the hypocrisy of those who would misrepresent Tom's real attitude toward church and school.

Of course, the newspapers of the land lived up to the reactionary policy of the ruling class, and the destroyed socialist press was misrepresented and vilified, while the Black Hundreds were represented as true patriots and saviours of society.

There are nearly as many mineral waters on the market as there are patent medicines, and both are about equally misrepresented and deceiving.

A conspiracy by some group to ensure that environmental data for agricultural worlds is misreported or misrepresented.