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English noun: misrepresentation | |||
| 1. | misrepresentation (communication) a misleading falsehood | ||
| Synonyms | deceit, deception | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | falsehood, falsity, untruth | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bill of goods, blind, dissembling, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, facade, feigning, fraudulence, half-truth, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, humbug, jiggery-pokery, magnification, overstatement, pretence, pretense, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, snake oil, snow job, subterfuge, trickery, window dressing | ||
| 2. | misrepresentation (act) a willful perversion of facts | ||
| Synonyms | falsification | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, fabrication, lying, overrefinement, prevarication, straining, tergiversation, torture, twisting | ||
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