Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb misrepresent

2 senses of misrepresent

Sense 1
misrepresent, belie -- (represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions")
       => represent -- (serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl")

Sense 2
fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent -- (tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data")
       => cheat, chisel -- (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?")

Antonyms of adj misrepresented

1 sense of misrepresented

Sense 1
distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted -- (having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem")

INDIRECT (VIA disingenuous) -> ingenuous, artless -- (characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility")

Similarity of adj misrepresented

1 sense of misrepresented

Sense 1
distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted -- (having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem")
       => disingenuous (vs. ingenuous), artful -- (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse")