0 present participle of misrepresent
1 to describe falsely an idea, opinion, or situation, often in order to get an advantage:
It is great when you can cite yourself as the authority, and even better when you can do so without misrepresenting entire sub-disciplines.
For many years, the formalists have been able to avoid misrepresenting the positions of the connectionists and the functionalists by simply ignoring their existence.
In this particular context, an else-paraphrase would have the unfortunate effect of misrepresenting the intended number, which calls for a focus on plurality of persons.
In my opinion, such a reunification is not possible without misrepresenting at least one of the recent dominant epistemological traditions.
Although this seems a very crude polarization, misrepresenting both parties, it is not inaccurate.
However, my main message here is that we achieve very little by trivializing and misrepresenting it.
However, there is the risk of seriously misrepresenting those details when the metaphor is interpreted literally or when it is used as an a priori explanation of them.
Shryock is undeterred by the amount of liberty he takes in misrepresenting facts.
