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: --
Tobacco companies were charged with engaging in misrepresentation in their advertising.
The statement is a clear and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
We then invite the authors to correct any misrepresentations that we might have introduced.
However, there is a thin line between hype and misrepresentation.
Of course, all errors or misrepresentations are my responsibility.
The problems of availability and anchoring are both examples of misrepresentation, and can be corrected by information that is as far as possible unbiased.
Another clear case of misrepresentation involves the frequency of verbal and especially bare nominal gerunds with for in the subperiod 1500-70.
Conversely, linguists may feel that the area of convergence is a misrepresentation that disfigures their discipline.
Misrepresentation of the knee joint resulted in differences in the hip joint moment and powers that were not just scaled values of the correct model.
Such ' outlier ' profiles may reflect rare subforms of illness, misunderstood questions or subject misrepresentation.
