MEANING
To give an inaccurate account of something, whether through error or deliberate distortion.
Use it for
describing a finding presented inaccurately; correcting an erroneous account of an event; distinguishing inaccurate reporting from proven deception; showing a quotation or figure being represented incorrectlyIdentifies an inaccurate account without assuming that the error was deliberate or specifying its direction. Writing functions: Evidence.
Words that belong together
- misreport a finding
- misreport the facts
- misreport a figure
On the page
Several outlets misreported the association as proof that the policy caused the change.
The correction acknowledged that the original article had misreported the number of participants.
Word forms
- Base
- misreport
- Past tense
- misreported
- Past participle
- misreported
- Present participle
- misreporting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- misreport
- Present continuous
- am/is/are misreporting
- Present perfect
- have/has misreported
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been misreporting
- Past
- misreported
- Past continuous
- was/were misreporting
- Past perfect
- had misreported
- Past perfect continuous
- had been misreporting
- Future
- will misreport
- Future continuous
- will be misreporting
- Future perfect
- will have misreported
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been misreporting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive: misreport, misreports, misreported, misreported, misreporting; future will misreport. Common with an event, statement, finding or figure as object. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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