| 单词 | misrepresent |
| 释义 | misrepresent (once / 1519 pages) v If you deliberately mislead someone — for example, by lying about your work experience at a job interview — you misrepresent yourself, or paint a false picture of who you are. The verb misrepresent can be a relatively gentle way to say "lie," or it can mean more of a bending of the truth. You might misrepresent the reliability of an old car you're trying to sell or accidentally misrepresent an author's intentions in a school book report. The word itself is built from the Old English prefix mis-, which means "bad or wrong," and represent, or "depict, describe, or symbolize." WORD FAMILYmisrepresent: misrepresentation, misrepresented, misrepresenting, misrepresents+/misrepresentation: misrepresentations/represent: misrepresent, representable, representation, representative, represented, representing, represents/representation: representational, representations/representational: nonrepresentational, representationally/representative: nonrepresentative, representatively, representatives, unrepresentative/unrepresentative: unrepresentatively USAGE EXAMPLESBut the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Senegal’s widow, claims deputies misrepresented facts and obstructed the investigation. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) But sometimes there is no pressure and images are deliberately misrepresented. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) It accuses the bank and its employees of misrepresenting the quality of the loans they sold to investors between 2005 and 2007. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1v represent falsely This statement misrepresents my intentions Syn|Hypo|Hyper belie sentimentalise, sentimentalize look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment distort, falsify, garble, warpmake false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, shammake believe with the intent to deceive mangle, murder, mutilatealter so as to make unrecognizable play possumto pretend to be dead take a divepretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hatspeak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths moutharticulate silently; form words with the lips only represent serve as a means of expressing something 2v tamper, with the purpose of deception Syn|Hypo|Hyper cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle juggle manipulate by or as if by moving around components cheat, chisel engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud |
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