MISRELATING Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

misrelating

verb

present participle of misrelate

as in misrepresenting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of that Hollywood anecdote has been misrelated so many times that at this point no one knows what was actually said

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Customers filed lawsuits alleging Bacelar was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees, The Times reported.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
The statement called on Cofer to stop misrepresenting her opponent’s record.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of distorting

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