To give an inaccurate or misleading account of someone or something.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- misrepresent evidence
- misrepresent a position
On the page
The excerpt misrepresented the evidence by removing the qualification attached to the result.
The critic misrepresented the position as absolute when it had been explicitly conditional.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- misrepresent
- Past tense
- misrepresented
- Past participle
- misrepresented
- Present participle
- misrepresenting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- misrepresent
- Present continuous
- am/is/are misrepresenting
- Present perfect
- have/has misrepresented
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been misrepresenting
- Past
- misrepresented
- Past continuous
- was/were misrepresenting
- Past perfect
- had misrepresented
- Past perfect continuous
- had been misrepresenting
- Future
- will misrepresent
- Future continuous
- will be misrepresenting
- Future perfect
- will have misrepresented
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been misrepresenting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: misrepresent; misrepresents; misrepresented; misrepresented; misrepresenting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: style analysis, interpretation, characterization, rhetorical contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: misrepresents.
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