misrepresentation

1. is a type of: falsehood, falsity, untruth - a false statement
   subtypes:

   • bill of goods - communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable
   • humbug, snake oil - communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
   • half-truth - a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead
   • facade, window dressing - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
   • exaggeration, magnification, overstatement - making to seem more important than it really is
   • snow job - a long and elaborate misrepresentation
   • dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense - pretending with intention to deceive
   • blind, subterfuge - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
   • hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
   • duplicity, fraudulence - a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
   • equivocation, evasion - a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
   same as: deceit, deception
2. is a type of: actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law
   subtypes:

   • distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
   • equivocation, tergiversation - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
   • fabrication, lying, prevarication - the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
   • deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation - the act of deceiving
   same as: falsification

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