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misrepresent
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of MISREPRESENT
1
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <this summary seriously misrepresents the general tone and substance of the speech>
Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
2
to give a misleading impression of <deliberately misrepresented the facts of the case>
Synonyms misrepresent
Related Words contradict; camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, disguise, hide, mask, obscure; color, deceive, distort, falsify, garble, mislead, misrender, misreport, twist; dissemble, feign, pretend
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