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verb Simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
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At the conclusion of this hearing Ben Thomas was removed from Seal Team One and sent to the USS Constellation were he again misrepresented himself as a SEAL by wearing the SEAL Breast
It does stick out to me as I read it of course, particularly that not only did the word mean "a plan for armed aggression" to the German generals, it was a term misrepresented by the generals at the Nuremberg (witch) trial.
The minister was warned by fund manager Tim Bush, who sits on the urgent issues task force at the FRC, that the body has "misrepresented" the role of auditors in a recent submission to the Treasury select committee by saying auditors did not have any role to pay in ensuring financial stability.
As a military member I am EXTREMELY offended that Hillary continuously "misrepresented" the truth (a.k.a. LIED) about being under sniper fire in Bosnia.
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