MISREPORTING Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

misreporting

verb

present participle of misreport

as in misleading

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Roughly 7 in 10 people globally believe government officials, business leaders and journalists are deliberately misleading them.

— Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Blue Origin also makes misleading claims about its rocket fuel.

— Marissa E. Yingling, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of misleading

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But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorting

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This goes way beyond the fact Trump is the only president found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and liable for fraudulently inflating the value of his assets to defraud banks and insurers.

— Max Taves, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York.

— Jessie DiMartino, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of falsifying

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Paul has long accused Fauci of deceiving Americans about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 July 2026
The ensuing investigation ultimately revealed that Angela had framed Hadley and uncovered evidence of her long history of deceiving people to gain sympathy.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026

Definition of deceiving

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Well, that’s kind of what the National Institutes of Health is now proposing—concealing from applicants the scores that their grant application receive from scientific peer review.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Amazon, Google, Meta and Elon Musk’s xAI all have demanded nondisclosure agreements with local governments, concealing their identity and intent until deals are almost done.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of concealing

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