misrepresentation

Noun

(plural misrepresentations)

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

Anagrams

representationism

Origin

misrepresent +"Ž -ation

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misrepresentation - Legal Definition

n

A false statement typically made with the intention to mislead. See fraud.

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Sentence Examples

But we have always to be on our guard against misrepresentation, exaggeration and falsehood.
This, however, was a misrepresentation of his words.
He bore popular abuse and misrepresentation without the slightest murmur or sourness of temper.
The picture drawn may be a caricature, or a misrepresentation of the fact - as that of the father of Demosthenes, " blear-eyed with the soot of the glowing mass," &c. - but it is, with rare exceptions, realistically conceived, and it is brought before us with the vivid touches of a Defoe or a Swift, or of the great pictorial satirist of the 18th century, Hogarth.
He has been freely charged with gross misrepresentation, an accusation to which he laid himself open, for instance, in the account of the birth of James, the Old Pretender.

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