misrepresentation

Definitions of misrepresentation

n a misleading falsehood

Synonyms:: deceit, deception

Types:: show 18 types...; hide 18 types...; bill of goods
communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable; humbug, snake oil
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive; half-truth
a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead; facade, window dressing
a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant; exaggeration, magnification, overstatement
making to seem more important than it really is; snow job
a long and elaborate misrepresentation; dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
pretending with intention to deceive; blind, subterfuge
something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; duplicity, fraudulence
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation; equivocation, evasion
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth; bluff
pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; pretext, stalking-horse
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason; hypocrisy, lip service
an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction; circumlocution, indirect expression
an indirect way of expressing something; doublespeak
any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not; hedge, hedging
an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; cavil, quibble, quiddity
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

Type of:: falsehood, falsity, untruth
a false statement

n a willful perversion of facts

Synonyms:: falsification

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean; equivocation, tergiversation
falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; fabrication, lying, prevarication
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth; deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
the act of deceiving; fibbing, paltering
a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear; fakery
the act of faking (or the product of faking); indirection
deceitful action that is not straightforward; chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); double-dealing, duplicity
acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another; cheat, cheating
a deception for profit to yourself; delusion, head game, illusion
the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas; feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
the act of giving a false appearance; impersonation, imposture
pretending to be another person; obscurantism
a deliberate act intended to make something obscure; bluff, four flush
the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards; take-in
the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone

Type of:: actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
activity that transgresses moral or civil law

n a misleading falsehood

n a willful perversion of facts

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