Definition for Misrepresentation:

• which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy; whence it is also called the " psalm of mercy." Wharton.

Synonyms for Misrepresentation:

• n.

  •
  • true,
  • untruth,
  • whopper,
  • prevarication.
  •corruption (noun)
  • fraudulencies,
  • un scrupulousnesses,
  • mis-representation,
  • de-moralizations,
  • mis representation,
  • de-moralization,
  • jobberies,
  • unscrupulousnesses,
  • profiteerings,
  • de moralization,
  • mis-representations,
  • on take,
  • shady deals,
  • un scrupulousness,
  • un-scrupulousness,
  • fiddlings,
  • mis representations,
  • de moralizations,
  • breach trust,
  • un-scrupulousnesses,
  • bribings.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • misapprehension,
  • Misguidance,
  • perversion,
  • mendacity,
  • misconstruction,
  • mask,
  • misconception,
  • bad likeness,
  • simulation,
  • extravaganza,
  • barnumism,
  • phoney,
  • sophistry,
  • understatement,
  • Overdrawing,
  • misapplication,
  • misdirection,
  • imitation,
  • cloak,
  • lollapalooza,
  • disguise.
  •deceit (noun)
  • fraudulences,
  • smoke mirrors.
  •deception (noun)
  • deception.
  •distortion (noun)
  • in-torsions,
  • mis-statements,
  • mis statements,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • co-loring,
  • in-torsion,
  • twistednesses,
  • malconformations,
  • in torsion,
  • mis statement,
  • co lorings,
  • co-lorings,
  • mis shape,
  • mis interpretations,
  • intorsions,
  • mis-shapes,
  • in torsions,
  • mis shapes,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis-shape,
  • tall stories,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • co loring.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • dissimulation,
  • coverup,
  • cover up,
  • tergiversation,
  • double meaning,
  • shufflings,
  • amphibology,
  • equivocality,
  • runaround,
  • evasion,
  • quibbling routine,
  • deceptiveness,
  • fibbing.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • overestimation,
  • romance,
  • overemphasises,
  • overemphasis,
  • extravagance,
  • hogwash,
  • exaltation,
  • elaboration,
  • tall talk.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fabrication,
  • stretch,
  • adulteration,
  • twist,
  • coloring,
  • false light,
  • not a true picture,
  • slant.
  •falsity (noun)
  • un-realities,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un-reality,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • in sincerity,
  • in-sincerities,
  • in-fidelities,
  • un candidness,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • doubledealing,
  • un reality,
  • un-candidness,
  • in sincerities,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • un candidnesses,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • in-fidelity,
  • in-accuracy,
  • un realities,
  • in-sincerity,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • in fidelities,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un faithfulness,
  • in fidelity,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • in accuracy,
  • in accuracies.
  •fib (noun)
  • spinaches.
  •fiction (noun)
  • storytellings,
  • cliff hanger,
  • work imagination,
  • cliff hangers,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • figment imagination,
  • terminological inexactitudes.
  •fraud (noun)
  • fast ones,
  • sharp practices,
  • hocus pocus,
  • barratries,
  • hoodwinkings,
  • fast shuffles,
  • fourberies,
  • duperies,
  • hankypanky,
  • bamboozlements,
  • swindlings,
  • dupings.
  •parody (noun)
  • mockheroics,
  • sendups,
  • playons,
  • mock heroic,
  • send-ups,
  • play ons,
  • play-ons,
  • mock-heroics,
  • playon,
  • mock heroics,
  • send ups,
  • mockheroic.
  •pretense (noun)
  • dis plays,
  • pre-tenses,
  • pre texts,
  • dis play,
  • fakeries,
  • dis-play,
  • pre text,
  • pre-tense,
  • posings,
  • feignings,
  • fakings,
  • dis-plays,
  • pre-texts,
  • pre-text,
  • dumb acts,
  • pre tenses,
  • schticks,
  • makebelieve,
  • pre tense.
  •slander (noun)
  • dirty linen,
  • muckraking,
  • mud-slinging.
  •story (noun)
  • cock and bull story,
  • un truism,
  • un-truisms,
  • un-truism,
  • untruisms,
  • un truisms.
  •tall talk (noun)
  • tall-talk,
  • over-statements,
  • over statements,
  • over statement,
  • over-statement.
  •untruthfulness (noun)
  • un truthfulnesses,
  • un-truthfulness,
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • un truthfulness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fish story,
  • lie,
  • canard,
  • representing,
  • cock-and-bull story.
  •
  • corruption,
  • tall tale.
  •charlatanism
  • quackery.

Paraphrases for Misrepresentation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    falsification.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    falsehood, untruth.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    distortion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misunderstanding, denaturing, Distorting, misconception, false, deformity, strain, deflection, alteration, Counterfeiting.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misinterpretation, misstatement, misinformation, perversion, deformation, forgery, falseness, fake, dishonesty.

Antonyms for Misrepresentation:

• n.

  • falsehood
    truth.

Misrepresentation Sentence Examples:

• By this misrepresentation, the fugitive hoped to have another chance of getting away.

• That gentleman's inborn talent for historic misrepresentation culminated unpleasantly through a defective memory; a year or two after he had sworn in his application for the " Rancho," being engaged in another case, some trifling inconsistency was discovered in his statements, which had the effect of throwing the weight of evidence to the party who had paid him most, but was instantly detected by the weaker party.

Homophones for Misrepresentation:

• misrepresentaation.