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# misrepresent

«misrepresent» in Mova's school dictionary: **to describe them in a false or unfair way, so others get…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (misrepresent, misrepresents, misrepresented, misrepresenting); noun misrepresentation

### meaning for a pupil

1) To misrepresent someone or something means to describe them in a false or unfair way, so others get the wrong idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#m1)

2) To misrepresent yourself means to pretend to be something you are not, such as lying about your age online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and media lessons about news, adverts and quoting people fairly; in online safety, people may misrepresent who they are. Phrases: «misrepresent the facts», «be misrepresented», «misrepresent someone's words».

### examples

- The advert misrepresented how big the toy was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x1)
- Don't misrepresent what your friend said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x2)
- The newspaper misrepresented the facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x3)
- People online sometimes misrepresent themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x4)
- She felt misrepresented by the story about her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x5)
- Leaving out the bad parts can misrepresent the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x6)
- The graph misrepresented the numbers by starting at fifty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x7)
- Checking sources helps us spot when news misrepresents events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Mis + represent: «mis» means wrongly. In maths, a graph can misrepresent data if the axis does not start at zero or the scale is uneven.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misrepresent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misrepresent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.