MISREPRESENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misrepresented mean? 

• MISREPRESENTED (adjective)
  The adjective MISREPRESENTED has 1 sense:

1. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

  Familiarity information: MISREPRESENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISREPRESENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

Synonyms:

distorted; misrepresented; perverted; twisted

Context example:

a perverted translation of the poem

Similar:

artful; disingenuous (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness)

 Context examples 

Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)