(n.) Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(2) Various kinds of false reports are defined, described, and grouped according to type: misunderstandings, misreporting, distortion through illness, distortion by design, professional error, misrepresentation, and a grouping of less common instances.
(3) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(4) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
(5) Its campaign of vilification and deliberate misrepresentation of benefit spending has been effective, blaming the poor, not pay structures.
(6) HP said it had uncovered "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy.
(7) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
(8) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
(9) Does he feel the cuddly, avuncular Alan Bennett is a misrepresentation?
(10) There is also the problematic fact that postcolonial theory has, in its account of the colonial encounter, focused almost exclusively on the matter of imperial misrepresentation: it largely ignores what non-western cultures were up to in the last two centuries, unless they were seen to be actively engaged in rebutting the coloniser.
(11) I implore the media to temper further one-sided misrepresentations about this crucial matter that affects the wellbeing of the general public.
(12) Misrepresentations of social work Maris Stratulis , England manager, British Association of Social Workers : "Scaremongering is alienating a lot of the people that social workers are trying to work with.
(13) Any company that makes misrepresentations to consumers about its privacy and security practices risks FTC action.” A number of “anonymous” apps including Whisper and Secret have been launched recently promising the ability to post unidentified messages.
(14) But the Philippines-based OFW (Overseas Foreign Workers) Watch , which supports Filipino migrant workers, said physical abuse, delayed and refused salaries, the misrepresentation of employers and contracts and passport confiscations were common issues in Qatar.
(15) HP called on the US and British authorities to investigate what it called "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy" before the acquisition.
(16) Premature analysis may result in inaccurate estimation of tumor response and adverse effects as well as misrepresentation of survival.
(17) Her parents told the Austin American-Statesman that this was a misrepresentation of why she was there, while the facility, Heartlight Ministries, issued a statement five days after the page’s creation denying that they provide conversion treatments or held Sarah against her will, adding that she had left.
(18) The actor said the Mail on Sunday's report about his Newsnight comments were an "outrageous misrepresentation ... to get their revenge for the fact I was criticising their kind of journalism".
(19) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
(20) To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation."
Travesty
Definition:
(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(2) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(3) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(4) The BBC is facing a growing political backlash to its proposed cuts to local radio after MPs lined up at a Westminster debate to criticise the changes as unfair, unjustified and a "travesty" for listeners.
(5) It would be a travesty for Australian democracy if these careful and thought-through reforms were not in place in time for the next federal election,” said the shadow resources minister, Gary Gray.
(6) Like his party, Griffin likes to project an image of besuited normality, speaking for the common citizen against the liberal establishment, and the BBC appears to have bought this travesty.
(7) Amnesty International called the verdict a "travesty".
(8) It would be a travesty if Chile were to concede a late equaliser here, such has been their almost total domination.
(9) Klimt is so often undervalued, just because of this travestied masterpiece.
(10) And if Walcott somehow ends up with England in France this summer it’ll be an utter travesty.
(11) In an interview with Deadline, the film-maker angrily vowed to put the film on hold in the hope that such drastic measures might prevent similar travesties in future.
(12) It was a game that got away from us and we could have lost it in the end, which would have been a travesty.” While Villa did not play like a side in trouble, points are ultimately what matter and Lambert still has to convince all of his side’s supporters that he is the man to lead the club into calmer waters.
(13) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(14) "With Costa Rica's rich biodiversity, it would be a travesty for them not to stand up for sharks, which sit at the highest levels of the food chain assuring balance among ecological communities in the ocean," Sea Shepherd said.
(15) The award-winning children's writer Alan Gibbons read a statement from the playwright Hall , in which Hall urged the council to change its mind, saying that "a Labour administration which would even consider closing all local libraries travesties the history of the Party and the Labour movement".
(16) He said "of course [Jones] meant hide the decline in temperatures, which caused another scientist, Kevin Trenberth of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, to write: " The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't ."
(17) If Cameron and his ministers try the same trick with the commemoration of the 1914-18 carnage, it will be a repulsive travesty.
(18) That Ray Tensing is currently free and walking around in public is a travesty,” the statement said.
(19) "The impact these cuts will have on all of its programming is a travesty," she told the debate in parliament's Westminster Hall.
(20) "A standing tribute to one of the biggest travesties of the 20th century on Saturday followed by VIP guided bar crawl with English speaking guides."