misrepresentation

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misrepresentation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Misrepresentation \Mis*rep`re*sen*ta"tion\, n.
     Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or
     account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as,
     a misrepresentation of a person's motives. --Sydney Smith.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of
           intentional untruth.
           [1913 Webster]

misrepresentation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  misrepresentation
      n 1: a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit,
           deception]
      2: a willful perversion of facts [syn: falsification,
         misrepresentation]

misrepresentation - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MISREPRESENTATION, contracts. The statement made by a party to a contract, 
  that a thing relating to it is in fact in a particular way, when he knows it 
  is not so. 
       2. The misrepresentation must be both false and fraudulent, in order to 
  make the party making it, responsible to the other for damages. 3 Com. R. 
  413; 10 Mass. R. 197; 1 Rep. Const. Court, 328, 475, Yelv. 21 a, note l; 
  Peake's Cas. 115; 3 Campb. 154; Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 10, s. 1. And see 
  Representation. It is not every misrepresentation which will make a party 
  liable; when a mere misstatement of a fact has been erroneously made, 
  without fraud, in a casual, improvident communication, respecting a matter 
  which the person to whom the communication was made, and who had an interest 
  in it, should not have taken upon trust, but is bound to inquire himself, 
  and had the means of ascertaining the truth, there would be no 
  responsibility; 5 Maule & Selw. 380; 1 Chit. Pr. 836; 1 Sim. R. 13, 63; and 
  when the informant was under no legal pledge or obligation as to the precise 
  accuracy and correctness of his statement, the other party can maintain no 
  action for the consequences of that statement, upon which it was his 
  indiscretion to place reliance. 12 East, 638; see also, 2 Cox, R. 134; 13 
  Ves. 133; 3 Bos. & Pull. 370; 2 East, 103; 3 T. R, 56, 61; 3 Bulstr. 93; 6 
  Ves. 183; 3 Ves. & Bea. 110; 4 Dall. R. 250. Vide Concealment; 
  Representation; Suggestio falsi; Suppressio veri. 
  
  

misrepresentation - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "misrepresentation":
     canard, coloring, confabulation, corruption, distortion,
     equivocation, exaggeration, false coloring, false swearing,
     falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fib, lie,
     miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation,
     misstatement, misuse, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting,
     story, straining, tale, torturing, untruth