misrepresent
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 →
2) To misrepresent yourself means to pretend to be something you are not, such as lying about your age online. tree →
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 →
- Don't misrepresent what your friend said. tree →
- The newspaper misrepresented the facts. tree →
- People online sometimes misrepresent themselves. tree →
- She felt misrepresented by the story about her. tree →
- Leaving out the bad parts can misrepresent the truth. tree →
- The graph misrepresented the numbers by starting at fifty. tree →
- Checking sources helps us spot when news misrepresents events. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.