What is "misrepresented"

Usage examples of "misrepresented".

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.