misrepresentation
A misrepresentation is when you misrepresent, or lie about, something that happened. If you say you were the quarter back of the football team but really you were the mascot, that’s a misrepresentation.
A misrepresentation is a misstatement of the facts. It’s more than casting a different light on something; it’s deceptive and untrue. It’s a misrepresentation to tell your parents you went to the principal’s office to talk about books if you really got sent there for talking in class. Misrepresentations are deliberately misleading. They’re lies.
Definitions of misrepresentation
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a misleading falsehood
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bill of goods
communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
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humbug, snake oil
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
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half-truth
a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
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facade, window dressing
a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
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exaggeration, magnification, overstatement
making to seem more important than it really is
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snow job
a long and elaborate misrepresentation
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dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
pretending with intention to deceive
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blind, subterfuge
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
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hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
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duplicity, fraudulence
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
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equivocation, evasion
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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bluff
pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
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pretext, stalking-horse
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
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hypocrisy, lip service
an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
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circumlocution, indirect expression
an indirect way of expressing something
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doublespeak
any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
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hedge, hedging
an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
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cavil, quibble, quiddity
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
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a willful perversion of facts
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synonyms:
falsification
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distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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equivocation, tergiversation
falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
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fabrication, lying, prevarication
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
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deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
the act of deceiving
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fibbing, paltering
a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
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fakery
the act of faking (or the product of faking)
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indirection
deceitful action that is not straightforward
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chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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double-dealing, duplicity
acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
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cheat, cheating
a deception for profit to yourself
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delusion, head game, illusion
the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
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feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
the act of giving a false appearance
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impersonation, imposture
pretending to be another person
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obscurantism
a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
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bluff, four flush
the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
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take-in
the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone
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actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
activity that transgresses moral or civil law
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