Misrepresentation

Noun

 * 1) Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
 * 2) Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
 * 3) In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

Adjectives for Misrepresentation
gross; willful; flagrant; specious; singular; monstrous; calculated.

Verbs for Misrepresentation
deceive with—; decry—; denounce—; detect—; disclose—; fall victim to—; fathom —; interpret—; refute—; sense—; suffer from—; —aggravates; —amplifies; —deludes; —distorts; —dupes; —exaggerates; —falsifies ; —magnifies.

Thesaurus
canard, coloring, confabulation, corruption, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fib, lie, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misstatement, misuse, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, story, straining, tale, torturing, untruth

Related terms

 * misrepresent
 * misrepresentative
 * misrepresenter

Anagrams

 * representationism