0 something that misrepresents an idea, situation, or opinion, or the fact of something being misrepresented:
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.
1 the act of giving false information about something or someone, often in order to get an advantage:
The statement is a clear and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
Tobacco companies were charged with engaging in misrepresentation in their advertising.
It deals with mechanisms of transmutation and misrepresentation of the real motivations of agents.
For example, misrepresentation and transmutation put stress on the feasibility of ideals of deliberative democracy.
Retrospectively reviewing fellowship applications submitted over a 3-year period, these authors assessed the prevalence of research misrepresentation and compared such activity between subspecialties.
It would also permit prosecution for misrepresentation, without requiring proof of fraudulent intent, as at present.
Its role in the tension of favela misrepresentation is simultaneously a role in its own misrepresentation, a cinematic fate spared rap in 1999.
With each repetition, the misinterpretation, or better said, misrepresentation, became more and more elaborate and moved further and further from the mark.
Insofar as this misrepresentation stems from a conscious decision, the sentimental emotion results from choice.
Such ' outlier ' profiles may reflect rare subforms of illness, misunderstood questions or subject misrepresentation.
