How to Use misrepresent in a Sentence

misrepresent

verb
Definition of misrepresentnext
Synonyms for misrepresentnext
  • The movie deliberately misrepresents the facts about her life.
  • The company is accused of misrepresenting its earnings.
  • In other words, the purpose is not to misrepresent the facts.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 May 2022
  • Regardless of how - and why - others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.
    — Billboard, 28 July 2021
  • On that point, Biden may be right on the surface, but misrepresenting the numbers.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Barrett even faults the Fifth Circuit, and the right-wing trial judge who first heard this case, for misrepresenting many key facts.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 June 2024
  • But Samsung and Huawei are seen to have stepped over line, to have cheated or misrepresented their own product.
    — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
  • He’s attacked the band, and he’s done it in a slanderous way, with false accusations and misrepresenting the facts to the fans.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But users could still misrepresent their birth dates when setting up an account.
    — Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • Trump echoed the same in his tweets, insisting the deal was being misrepresented and demanding more credit from the press.
    — Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • There is worse, though: Catchy names and presentations that misrepresent a fund's returns and risks.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas is a lead-up to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But, others still misrepresent the stance taken by Black Lives Matter.
    — Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
  • Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks Our rating: False The post is misrepresenting a Texas bill that hasn't been signed into law.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • Some have misrepresented an image of a SpaceX rocket launch as evidence that some kind of weapon used a beam to cause an explosion on the island.
    — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Many people believe that the 12 days of Christmas are the days leading to December 25 (that’s thanks to popular songs and movies tending to misrepresent it).
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2020
  • And the loudest voices to weigh in on it so far—Barr and Trump—have flagrantly misrepresented its conclusions.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 23 July 2019
  • The game disguises luck as skill, misrepresents the American Dream, and promises wealth and power at the expense of others.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • As part of a plea deal, eight other misdemeanor counts of misrepresenting himself as a doctor and a felony count of burglary were dismissed.
    — Daily Pilot, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Shame on them for co-opting and misrepresenting their voices.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Has there ever been as clear-cut a case of House and Senate members misrepresenting the interests of their constituents?
    — Stephen Moore, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
  • Dacosta stopped a few blocks away, then kept going and later misrepresented what happened to police, the sources said.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
  • Body cameras were intended to keep an eye on cops, but have also been used by police to misrepresent their encounters with the public.
    — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 20 July 2021
  • Fox said the woman’s email has been misrepresented as being a key source of Fox’s reporting on Dominion.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And as Trump’s record shows, people who are prepared to misrepresent the truth as a means to – or excuse for – abusing their power once will almost certainly do so again.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • In a sense, isn't tipping giving a business permission to misrepresent its prices?
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
  • Scientists whose work was cited in that draft said their findings had been misrepresented, and also called out flaws in the analysis.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But don’t order a counterfeit, waste my officer’s time, break the law and misrepresent yourself.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In fact, all of our cases above feature Christian-clergy plaintiffs who do not want the government to misuse or misrepresent their faith and care deeply about their neighbors’ religious freedom.
    — Rachel Laser, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2024
  • A number of Republican figures are accusing the White House transcript of misrepresenting what Biden said.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'misrepresent.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: