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 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 Cohen testified before Congress in 2019, alleging Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits. — ABC News, 20 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

Definition of distorting

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Just such an October weather pattern occurred 61 years ago, obscuring predawn views of the spectacular Comet Ikeya-Seki for most observers east of the Mississippi — an ironic fate for the most brilliant comet of the 20th century.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Today’s problem is hyperscalers spending themselves into oblivion, spreading inflation well beyond Silicon Valley and obscuring problems nearly everywhere else.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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He has been charged with murder, two counts of indecent behavior involving a minor, and concealing a corpse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
The cases target people the department accuses of concealing criminal activity, faking their identities or lying to the government to get their citizenship.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of concealing

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But this is in fact the opportunity hiding inside the greatest technological acceleration of our lifetimes.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Apparently, as Ted Bundy, Kip’s been Paused since last night, hiding under the porch of an attractive law student who’s suddenly on to him.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of hiding

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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
Granted, this morning, Mercury in Scorpio will meet with Saturn retrograde in an awkward quincunx, which can be quite the contradicting aspect, as if the two planets in contact didn’t speak the same language.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2026

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