misrepresentation
121distortion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Twisting out of shape Nouns 1. distortion, contortion; twist, torque, torsion; crookedness, obliquity; grimace, pout; asymmetry, anamorphosis. 2. disability, crippling, debility, handicap, defect;… …
122falsehood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of honesty Nouns 1. falsehood, falseness, dishonesty; falsity, falsification; deception, untruth; lying, misrepresentation, disinformation, plausible denial; mendacity, perjury, forgery, invention,… …
123lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …
124misstatement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. error, mistake; misrepresentation, perversion, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. exaggeration, distortion, falsity; see error 1 , mistake 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. misrepresentation,… …
125misrepresent — [[t]mɪ̱sreprɪze̱nt[/t]] misrepresents, misrepresenting, misrepresented VERB If someone misrepresents a person or situation, they give a wrong or inaccurate account of what the person or situation is like. [V n as adj] He said that the press had… …
126lie# — lie vb Lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth directly or indirectly. Lie is the straightforward word, flatly imputing dishonesty to the speaker {he lies, and he knows he lies Johnson} {the article . . . has… …
127misrepresent — UK [ˌmɪsreprɪˈzent] / US [ˌmɪsreprəˈzent] verb [transitive] Word forms misrepresent : present tense I/you/we/they misrepresent he/she/it misrepresents present participle misrepresenting past tense misrepresented past participle misrepresented to… …
128representation — Any conduct capable of being turned into a statement of fact. Scandrett v. Greenhouse, 244 Wis. 108, 11 N.W.2d 510, 512. Statement of fact made to induce another to enter into contract. As element of actionable fraud includes deeds, acts or… …
