verb
definition
To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.
example
The fraudster misrepresented himself as a lawyer.
Examples of misrepresents in a Sentence
There is some truth in the satire, but it wholly misrepresents her rupture with Chopin.
He never conceals nor wilfully misrepresents anything, and he reckoned no labour too great which might help him to draw a truthful picture of the past.
Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and distrustful; estrangements and affrays are of constant occurrence; the traveller conceals and misrepresents the time and direction of his journey.
Our hints are few of Jesus' teaching, but this much, at least, we cannot doubt unless we suppose that death took him unawares, or that his explanation of the impending fact took on some un-Jewish form; and further, that the earliest tradition misrepresents him.
This Mr Moberly curiously misrepresents as action against Wykeham.
Red flags include any company that requires you to pay upfront fees, misrepresents prices or rewards, or asks you to call a "900" or "976" exchange to get your card.
In adults, BMI often misrepresents obesity because it does not consider healthy weight from muscle tissue; therefore, body fat percentage is considered a more accurate method for determining obesity in adults.
Now, Mach applies these preconceived opinions to " mechanics in its development," with the result that, though he shows much skill in mathematical mechanics, he misrepresents its development precisely at the critical point of the discovery of Newton's third law of motion.