Another word for misrepresentation
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Noun
An untrue declaration
- Anything extraordinarily large
- Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- A heinous or outrageous lie
- (Idiomatic) A greatly exaggerated, fantastic story.
- A kind of story or folk tale characterized by intentionally ludicrous exaggeration and incredible incidents
- (Informal) An unbelievable story; exaggeration
- A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.
- A story or account of true, legendary, or fictitious events; narrative
- A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.
- Romantic legend or tradition:
- A lie:
- An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events:
- A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
- A false statement or action, esp. one made with intent to deceive
- Something meant to deceive or mistakenly accepted as true:
- Anything made up or imagined, as a statement, story, etc.
- The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
- Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated:
- (Medicine, informal) Short form of fibula.
- (Informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
- An insignificant or childish lie.
- Dishonesty
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; esp., a lie
- (Countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- An absurd or highly improbable tale passed off as being true.
- An absurd, improbable story
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
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Another word for misrepresentation
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- Something outstanding of its kind.
- (Informal) An outstanding, extreme, or outrageous example of its kind.
- Alternative form of phony.
- Sophism
- Plausible but fallacious argumentation.
- Unsound or misleading but clever, plausible, and subtle argument or reasoning
- Any of various sexual acts or practices deviating from what is considered normal; sexual deviation
- A sexual practice or act considered abnormal or deviant.
- Something perverted; abnormal form
- Incorrect instructions or directions.
- Inaccurate aim.
- (Law) An error made by a judge in charging a jury.
- An inaccurate explanation, interpretation, or report; a misunderstanding.
- (Grammar) A faulty construction, especially of a sentence or clause.
- A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from the use of the wrong meaning of a word that has multiple meanings
- An instance of misinterpreting.
- The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.
- A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
- A failure to understand; mistake of meaning or intention
- A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
- Something derived or copied from an original, often in an inferior way:
- (Philos.) In Platonism, the process wherein sensible objects imperfectly embody unchanging, immaterial models or archetypes
- The result or product of imitating; artificial likeness; copy
- A literary, musical, or dramatic fantasy characterized by a loose structure and farce
- An event or display (dramatic, musical, etc.) of fantastic or chaotic behaviour or conduct.
- (Music) A composition marked by freedom and diversity of form, often with burlesque elements and satirical or parodic intent.
- Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty:
- (Music) The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.
- A literary or artistic work that uses imitation, as of the characteristic style of an author or a work, for comic effect or ridicule.
- A sort of vaudeville characterized by low comedy, striptease acts, etc.
- Any broadly comic or satirical imitation, as of a writing, play, etc.; derisive caricature; parody
- A literary or dramatic work that makes fun of something, often by means of outlandish exaggeration.
- A grotesque or farcical imitation for purposes of ridicule; burlesque
- A crude, distorted, or ridiculous representation (of something)
- An exaggerated or grotesque imitation, such as a parody of a literary work.
- The act or art of making such caricatures
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- A picture or imitation of a person, literary style, etc. in which certain features or mannerisms are exaggerated for satirical effect
- Imitation or representation, as of a potential situation or in experimental testing.
- An imitation or counterfeit
- The duplicating or reproducing of certain characteristics or conditions, as of a system or physical process, by the use of a model or representation, for study, training, etc.
- Appearance that misrepresents the true character of something:
- A pretense or misrepresentation:
- Clothes or accessories worn to conceal one's true identity.
- The action of the verb dissemble
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
- The act of representing as true what is known to be false; a deceiving or lying
- (Law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- A lie; falsehood
- The quality or state of being mendacious
- The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
- A loose outer garment, such as a cape.
- Something that covers or conceals:
- A loose outer garment, usually sleeveless and extending to or below the knees
- A grotesque or comical representation of a face, worn especially to frighten or amuse, as at Halloween.
- A cosmetic preparation that is applied to the face and allowed to dry before being removed, used especially for cleansing and tightening the skin.
- A usually rubber frame forming a watertight seal around the eyes and nose and containing a transparent covering for use in seeing underwater.
- Something untrue; a lie.
- An untrue statement; falsehood; lie
- The condition of being false; lack of truth.
- An imitation made to deceive; forgery
- A fraudulent imitation or facsimile.
- 1590Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
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