misrepresentmis‧rep‧re‧sent /ˌmɪsreprɪˈzent/ verb [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
These statistics grossly misrepresent the reality.—misrepresentation /ˌmɪsreprɪzenˈteɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]: a misrepresentation of the truth
Verb TableVERB TABLE
misrepresent
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | misrepresent |
| he, she, it | misrepresents | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | misrepresented |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have misrepresented |
| he, she, it | has misrepresented | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had misrepresented |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will misrepresent |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have misrepresented |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am misrepresenting |
| he, she, it | is misrepresenting | |
| you, we, they | are misrepresenting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was misrepresenting |
| you, we, they | were misrepresenting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been misrepresenting |
| he, she, it | has been misrepresenting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been misrepresenting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be misrepresenting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been misrepresenting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them.
- Some sellers will attempt to misrepresent the condition of a house to buyers.
- Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.
- But I feel she has been misrepresented.
- Even when asked directly, as they were by Carol Hong, employees misrepresented the costs, her lawsuit alleges.
- However, you have misrepresented New Zealand's position.
- In 1987, when an interim report was issued, scientists and environmentalists bitterly attacked its conclusions as misrepresenting the facts.
- They also did not find evidence that Lake took any action to conceal or misrepresent his financial holdings.
- We wonder if any of the other signers are similarly being misrepresented as supporting this seriously flawed proposal.
THESAURUSto change something in order to deceive people► distort
to deliberately give a wrong description of someone’s opinions or of a situation: to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · The judge said that she had deliberately tried to distort the facts.· Don’t try to distort the truth.
► twist to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get an advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · He accused reporters of twisting his words.· In her article she twisted the meaning of what I said.
► misrepresent to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · I hope I have not misrepresented her opinion.· He’s taking legal action to stop the film, claiming it grossly misrepresents him.
Longman Language Activatorto change facts or information in a dishonest way► twist to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get some advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · The lawyers twisted everything I said to make it look as if I was guilty.· Every time I try to talk to him about it, he just twists everything I say.· Write very clearly so that no one can twist your meaning.
► misrepresent to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.· Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them.
► distort to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.· These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.distort the truth/the facts: · Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.
► falsify to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: · She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.· A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.· Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time
► put words into somebody's mouth to pretend that you think someone has said something that is not what they actually said or meant: · I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!· You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.
► cook the books informal to dishonestly change a company's financial records, in order to steal money: · We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.· The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.
► rewrite history if a government, film company etc rewrites history, it deceives people by pretending that particular historical events did not really happen or that they happened differently: · Hollywood has been accused of rewriting history, by once again denying the role played by African Americans.
These statistics grossly misrepresent the reality.—misrepresentation /ˌmɪsreprɪzenˈteɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]: a misrepresentation of the truth