MISREPRESENTING Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

misrepresenting

verb

present participle of misrepresent

as in distorting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of this summary seriously misrepresents the general tone and substance of the speech

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as in obscuring

to give a misleading impression of deliberately misrepresented the facts of the case

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Recent Examples of misrepresenting But Amendment 83 has drawn an especially stark contrast between two types of Colorado’s hunters, with each claiming that the other is misrepresenting the interest of both the public and Centennial State hunters and anglers. — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026 Settlement talks collapsed in late August after Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting their discussions. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 At that public meeting, several parents said Adams should have been fired for misleading them and misrepresenting the condition of the Earl Warren ATP facilities. — Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026 Meta recently agreed to pay nearly $17 billion in a major settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general that had sued the company for misrepresenting the prevalence of harm on apps like Facebook and Instagram. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026 The lawsuit claimed State Farm violated state code over its practices toward additional living expense coverage, including by misrepresenting the terms of such coverage and by paying late. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 Reddington accused Grace of misrepresenting some of the facts related to some of Clancy’s Google searches. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026 The two sides had been due to meet Monday for preliminary discussions for a possible settlement, but Bonta called off the meeting late Sunday, after accusing Paramount of misrepresenting details of an earlier meeting held on Friday. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026 The specialists who wrote to the university, all of whom have published research, said misrepresenting methodology is a breach of scientific integrity. — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026

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But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

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In the early ‘80s, the singer was already obscuring his Blackness with makeup (prior to remaking his features with plastic surgery).

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Digital secondary channels have become the main outlet for liquidating illicit inventories, often obscuring sellers’ origins while reaching millions of buyers worldwide.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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Some senators fled while others braced themselves inside the Senate chamber as Officer Eugene Goodman tried to reason with the mob, and Senate staffers barricaded themselves in offices, hiding.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Joseph had spent most of the war hiding in the forest with the Bielski partisan force, a Jewish resistance group.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of hiding

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The contradicting geological and orbital observations for Phobos and Deimos collected to date have prevented scientists from definitively establishing one hypothesis over the other.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026
His argument would have been laughable, if not for the fact that Black Americans were barred from giving testimony against white people in California’s courts and therefore from contradicting Smith’s account.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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