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# misrepresent

verb (misrepresent, misrepresents, misrepresented, misrepresenting); noun misrepresentation

«misrepresent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To misrepresent someone or something means to describe them in a false or unfair way, so others get the wrong idea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#m1)
2. To misrepresent yourself means to pretend to be something you are not, such as lying about your age online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#m2)

### In the lessons

In citizenship and media lessons about news, adverts and quoting people fairly; in online safety, people may misrepresent who they are. Phrases: «misrepresent the facts», «be misrepresented», «misrepresent someone's words».

### Examples

- The advert misrepresented how big the toy was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x1)
- Don't misrepresent what your friend said. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x2)
- The newspaper misrepresented the facts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x3)
- People online sometimes misrepresent themselves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x4)
- She felt misrepresented by the story about her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x5)
- Leaving out the bad parts can misrepresent the truth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x6)
- The graph misrepresented the numbers by starting at fifty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x7)
- Checking sources helps us spot when news misrepresents events. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb. Mis + represent: «mis» means wrongly. In maths, a graph can misrepresent data if the axis does not start at zero or the scale is uneven.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «misrepresent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«misrepresent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/misrepresent.html) on Mova free.