The word "misrepresent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone gives a false or inaccurate description of something. For example, "The candidate misrepresented his qualifications in the job interview."
I want to choose whether to misrepresent myself.
Speaking to the conference, Geer described the removal of links to oneself as like moving to a new town or changing one's name: "a definition of privacy that turns on whether you do or do not retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself, a right which I will remind you is routinely granted but to those who have especially helped governmental causes [such as] witness protection".
Formerly a Mormon high priest, Park told the BBC: "There's compelling evidence that the Mormon Church leaders knowingly and wilfully misrepresent the historical truth of their origins and of the church for the purpose of deceiving their members into a state of mind that renders them exploitable".
It was revealed the south-coast club were charged under rule C.2, which states that a club "must not so arrange matters as to conceal or misrepresent the reality and/or substance of any matters in relation to a transaction or contract negotiations".
I'm not the sort of writer Media Lens bothers to whip up a storm against much, though the last time they did – not very successfully – I was disappointed (that naivety again) that whoever was behind it chose to misrepresent my words and meaning.
She faced, right from the get-go, a hostile media, sections of which were entirely prepared not only to misrepresent the facts at every opportunity but to attack her personally in way we've never seen before in this country.
That's not the only problem here, however: the press release itself was poorly communicated, and Bristol University's PR people have included quotes that seem to misrepresent their own research.
Populists are not against representation; they think current elites misrepresent the people.
To misrepresent a solicitation in this way verges on fraud, attorneys say.
She says: "We felt that they were trying to misrepresent students, by trying to get us to send something that would not only make students look bad but that would also be completely insensitive, especially for Manchester students.
That has allowed the PT to misrepresent it.
