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misreport Definition

mis·re·port (-rē pôrt′)

transitive verb

to report incorrectly or falsely

noun

an incorrect or false report

misreport Synonyms

misreport

v.

distort, falsify, misquote; see exaggerate.

misreport Usage Examples

Object

  • landing: Other unquantified elements of mortality arise through ( i ) bycatches, ( ii ) discards, and ( iii ) misreported landings.
  • status: In this paper we study the impact of misreported treatment status on the estimation of causal treatment effects.

Preposition: by

  • medium: This was misreported by the media as the union giving money to the new group of MPs.

Modifying Another Word

  • widely: They were not kicked out by the Iraqi government, as has been widely misreported in our " free " press.
  • often: Compton believes that the catalytic effects of nanotube electrodes are often misreported in the literature because the underlying science is not thoroughly investigated.

Preposition: in

  • medium: One key reason is that the polls have been systematically misreported in the media.