MISREPRESENTATION: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | m`isr`epruzent'eyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] a misleading falsehood |
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| | Synonyms: | | deceit, deception |
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| | See Also: | | blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, false statement, falsehood, falsity, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretence, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, untruth, window dressing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mis*rep`re*sen*ta"tion\, n.
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or
account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as,
a misrepresentation of a person's motives. --Sydney Smith.
Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of
intentional untruth.
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| | Related Terms: | | canard, coloring, confabulation, corruption, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fib, lie, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misstatement, misuse, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, story, straining, tale, torturing, untruth |
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