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词汇 misrepresentation
释义 misrepresentation
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌmɪs.rep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌmɪs.rep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/
something that misrepresents an idea, situation, or opinion, or the fact of something being misrepresented: (对意思、情况或意见的)歪曲
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.这部纪录片是对事实的歪曲,几乎与事实毫无相符之处。
The MP laughed off the remarks as media misrepresentation.这名下院议员对这些评论一笑置之,说是媒体歪曲事实。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
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fiction
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mythologize
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perjury
polygraph
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weasel words
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misrepresentation | Business English


misrepresentation
noun[ C or U ]
 LAWuk /ˌmɪsreprɪzenˈteɪʃən/us
the act of giving false information about something or someone, often in order to get an advantage:
The statement is a clear and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
Tobacco companies were charged with engaging in misrepresentation in their advertising.
See also
fraudulent misrepresentation

Examples of misrepresentation


misrepresentation
It deals with mechanisms of transmutation and misrepresentation of the real motivations of agents.
For example, misrepresentation and transmutation put stress on the feasibility of ideals of deliberative democracy.
Retrospectively reviewing fellowship applications submitted over a 3-year period, these authors assessed the prevalence of research misrepresentation and compared such activity between subspecialties.
It would also permit prosecution for misrepresentation, without requiring proof of fraudulent intent, as at present.
Its role in the tension of favela misrepresentation is simultaneously a role in its own misrepresentation, a cinematic fate spared rap in 1999.
With each repetition, the misinterpretation, or better said, misrepresentation, became more and more elaborate and moved further and further from the mark.
Insofar as this misrepresentation stems from a conscious decision, the sentimental emotion results from choice.
Such ' outlier ' profiles may reflect rare subforms of illness, misunderstood questions or subject misrepresentation.
Misrepresentation of the knee joint resulted in differences in the hip joint moment and powers that were not just scaled values of the correct model.
Conversely, linguists may feel that the area of convergence is a misrepresentation that disfigures their discipline.
Another clear case of misrepresentation involves the frequency of verbal and especially bare nominal gerunds with for in the subperiod 1500-70.
The problems of availability and anchoring are both examples of misrepresentation, and can be corrected by information that is as far as possible unbiased.
Of course, all errors or misrepresentations are my responsibility.
However, there is a thin line between hype and misrepresentation.
We then invite the authors to correct any misrepresentations that we might have introduced.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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