MISDESCRIPTION Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

misdescription

noun

Definition of misdescription

as in misstatement

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Noun

The reference to the co-defendant's YOS sentence was mistakenly included in some communication out of our office based on a previous misstatement and was not part of the Governor's decision process.

— Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Lee Watson, in the email, said Burns never represented the board in the lawsuit and telling the court otherwise is a misstatement.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2026

Definition of misstatement

Noun

In The Mayor of Casterbridge, his 1886 novel about a man who attempts to outflank the great error of his past, the English writer Thomas Hardy offers an interpersonal version of the geopolitical misconstructions Westad articulates.

— Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.

— Joshua Stein, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025

Definition of misconstruction

Noun

Handling emotions through asynchronous modalities just isn’t effective and has many potential downsides due to misinterpretation.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Sánchez, who faces an election next year, has said a misinterpretation of a Supreme Court ruling and disinformation on social media encouraged people to rush the border.

— Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of misinterpretation

Noun

They were accompanied by the museum’s architect Ma Yansong, who, in his remarks on stage, corrected a popular misconception that the building is made to resemble a spaceship.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026
Many, maybe even most, of these negative views of athletics held by my colleague and others are based on misconceptions.

— Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of misconception

Noun

There, the discovery of a spacecraft and additional extraterrestrials transforms their chase into a simple struggle for survival, as what began as a series of understandable misjudgments spirals into a tragedy of cosmic scale.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
When someone is experiencing imposter syndrome, success is attributed to luck, excessive effort, charm or other people's misjudgment.

— Sandro da Silva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of misjudgment

Noun

This, too, was a kind of misapprehension, in that his boss admired him for being so upbeat despite living in such a family when in fact Shigejiro had no individuality at all.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
The risk with any attempt to explain religion to a secular audience is playing into the misapprehension that American Christianity is monolithic.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026

Definition of misapprehension

Noun

But where Hwan’s Christianity is a willful, grotesque misreading of the Bible, Latif actively wrestles with his moral shortcomings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
But this response is a fundamental misreading of the genre and of its audience.

— Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of misreading

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