(a.) Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the comments of myself and others that I have seen have not criticised Islam but those who seek to hijack and misrepresent Islam,” he said.
(2) Morrison told her Labor had misrepresented the Coalition's policy.
(3) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(4) King’s College themselves agree that their data was misrepresented and reiterated this point to the London Assembly’s environment committee just last week.
(5) In an intensification of Labour's attack on the justice and security bill, which will restrict access to some sensitive intelligence, the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan accuses Clarke of misrepresenting it.
(6) The government has "grossly misrepresented" how badly firms are delivering its flagship welfare-to-work programme, the industry has said, after it was claimed just one in 20 long-term unemployed people had got permanent jobs via the scheme.
(7) The authors conclude that reliance on a single data source underestimates and potentially misrepresents both the numbers and types of poisoning deaths occurring in the state.
(8) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.
(9) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
(10) Academic misconduct entails fraudulent behavior involving some form of deception whereby one's work or the work of others is misrepresented.
(11) Police may decide to investigate whether Liam Fox's long-term travel companion profited from misrepresenting himself as an official adviser to the former defence secretary.
(12) The judge found: "Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards, and responsibility for, the treatment of the Jews."
(13) A culture of silence is rewarded; those who speak out and dare to question the system are not just cast aside, but ironically denied any protection or respect under Fifa’s own code of ethics.” Hours after Eckert’s summary, which effectively cleared Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, Garcia complained that it misrepresented the facts of his report and his conclusions and reported the matter to Fifa’s appeals committee.
(14) We, as a body, are feeling under attack; it feels like any concerns we raise are being misrepresented with hospitals portraying us as just wanting more money.” At 30, he still has about £9,000 in debt (down from about £30,000).
(15) He said that BP's spill response was "extraordinary" and that the company "did not misrepresent flow rate in a way that caused a delay in the shut-in of the well".
(16) And in passing we should note Campbell's professional dishonesty in denying at the time that there was a breakdown between the prime minister and his chancellor and later, while Brown was in power, publishing extracts that misrepresented, by omission, the foul relationship between them.
(17) Marked by intense feeling, the NHI debate has produced a crisis rhetoric that clouds the issues and misrepresents the state of medical care.
(18) Indeed, the programme misrepresents the true conditions of James Turner Street and ignores objective evidence.
(19) The only reason it seems otherwise is because the press is endlessly fascinated by Labour’s infighting and so that ends up being the only thing they report upon (except, of course, for the disruption brought about by strikes – another issue that is grossly misrepresented in the media).
(20) This is in contrast to using the usual divergent films, which may misrepresent the field borders with respect to the vertebral body level.
Representative
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(4) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(7) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(8) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(9) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(10) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(11) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(14) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(15) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(16) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(17) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(18) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(19) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(20) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)