Misrepresentation Definition

misrepresentations
noun
misrepresentations

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

Webster's New World Law

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.

Wiktionary

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.

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In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

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Noun

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misrepresentation
Plural:
misrepresentations

Origin of Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation Sentence Examples

  • This, however, was a misrepresentation of his words.

  • But we have always to be on our guard against misrepresentation, exaggeration and falsehood.

  • He is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master; but he is never guilty of deliberate misrepresentation.

  • By means of the grist tax (which he had proposed in 1865, but which the Menabrea cabinet had passed in 1868), and by other fiscal expedients necessitated by the almost desperate condition of the national exchequer, he succeeded, before his fall from power in 1873, in placing Italian finance upon a sound footing, in spite of fierce attacks and persistent misrepresentation.

  • 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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