SINCE 1828
misdescribe
verb
mis·de·scribe
| \ ˌmis-di-ˈskrīb
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misdescribed;
misdescribing
Definition of misdescribe
: to describe (something) wrongly
It may even be that left and right, radical and conservative misdescribe as much as they describe our everyday experience.— J. Peter Euben
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