misreport
Deliberate misreporting of figures is inexcusable.
The obvious misreporting of facts completely discredits your opinion.
The oil company was investigated by regulators over the misreporting of its oil and gas reserves.
Critics say that activities that are described as fraud in the private sector are tolerated as "politics" in the public sector, where the misreporting of facts and manipulation of information is a way of life.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Announcing, informing & stating
acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
awaken someone to something
bear
break
impart
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
put something out of its miseryidiom
reported
ring
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom

Examples of misreporting

misreporting
Because numerous studies have indicated that respondents may not acknowledge antisocial and illicit behaviours to an interviewer, the results are potentially affected by misreporting.
However, none of the above approaches focuses on characteristics of the misreporting itself.
Finally, we examined size of family (number of living children) as a possible factor in misreporting.
Whereas men appear simply to forget as a function of age, for women, misreporting is a more complex phenomenon bound up with traditional values.
A low reliability score among women was found to be strongly associated with misreporting, while for men there was no significant relationship.
If men's misreporting can be attributed mainly to forgetting, on the other hand, it is less likely to be reflected in their reliability scores.
To some extent the more detailed questioning of women probably resulted in a reduction of female misreporting.
Since all taxes are deducted before payment, there should be no reason for misreporting of the amount received.
A major aspect of male misreporting was the confusion of fetal deaths with live births.
Such misreporting can only have weakened the relationships emerging from the analysis so the true associations are closer than they appear.
Again, there is the possibility of some form of systematic misreporting.
For many of these self-reports are not really reports of strategic voting, but misreporting of votes biased towards the winner - which is observationally equivalent to reporting a strategic vote.
Four-fifths of the misreporting of general practitioner visits was explained by underreporting on the part of women, while onefifth of the misreporting was explained by overreporting.
Similarly, the degree of accurate reporting of community midwifery visits was estimated at 21.1%, with almost two-thirds of misreporting explained by underreporting on the part of women.
Studies of significant inaccuracies in national censuses have aimed primarily at establishing the degree of under-enumeration, while related issues of over-enumeration and misreporting of information have received less attention.
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