misdescribed

Definition of misdescribednext
past tense of misdescribe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for misdescribed
Verb
  • If investigators determine that Noem knowingly misrepresented facts while testifying, the conduct should be prosecuted as a federal felony.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Federal officials later filed a notice of appeal of the ruling, and the administration continued pursuing possible deportation based on allegations that Khalil misrepresented information on his green card application.
    Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Fall hopes the data will be useful for policymakers but also worries about them being misinterpreted.
    Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
  • One reason is that your words could come across differently depending on the person reading the message, so stick to using short sentences to avoid being misinterpreted.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Some of the new generation is riffing on that in trying to be as distorted as possible just for the sake of it.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Time in that video is completely distorted; events that are about to happen are referred to in the past tense.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • An earlier version misstated his title.
    Garrett Downs, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In the statement, Panama Ports Company also said the Panamanian state had previously misstated the compensation figure sought in press comments.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Ask whether the hypothesis, at least in principle, can be falsified.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • After Mario left, the school was hit with NCAA sanctions in 1995 following a Pell Grant scandal in which an academic advisor falsified financial aid for more than 50 players.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Some might have even said cooked.
    Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The countertop material — typically the mineral quartz crushed and cooked with plastic resins, dyes and glass into slabs — was pioneered in 1987 by Israel’s Caesarstone, which still makes it and is named in hundreds of lawsuits, including Peña’s.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That day, his Tahoe had been disguised with both an Uber decal and an out-of-state license plate.
    Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • What follows this admission is a piercing dissection not of the art itself, but of frameworks of looking at Black art and life that go beyond racist tropes disguised as appeals to the primitive, the spontaneous, the corporeal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Finding frass on tomato leaves or the soil below your plants is sometimes easier than finding the green hornworm perfectly camouflaged among the green vines.
    Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 9 Mar. 2026
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“Misdescribed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescribed. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.

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