Noun
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to. Niall Ferguson
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. George Eliot
Then came the political campaign of 1920 with its bitter personal feuds, as a result of which the real underlying issues were obscured by passion, misrepresentation and downright falsehood. Kirby Page
I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am. Jennifer Lopez
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. Fabius Maximus