Usually means: Describe inaccurately; misrepresent someone's intentions.
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  1. mischaracterize: Merriam-Webster
  2. mischaracterize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. mischaracterize: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mischaracterize: Wordnik
  5. mischaracterize: Wiktionary
  6. Mischaracterize, mischaracterize: Dictionary.com
  7. Mischaracterize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. mischaracterize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Mischaracterize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. mischaracterize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. mischaracterize: FreeDictionary.org
  12. mischaracterize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mischaracterize: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mischaracterize)

▸ verb:  To characterize falsely or mistakenly

Similar:
mischaracterise, misrepresent, misclassify, misdescribe, misreflect, undercharacterise, misfigure, mislabel, misgeneralize, misconceptualize, more...

Opposite:
characterize, describe, represent, portray

Types:
misrepresent, twist, distort, skew, garble, mangle, falsify, more...

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Similar:
mischaracterise, misrepresent, misclassify, misdescribe, misreflect, undercharacterise, misfigure, mislabel, misgeneralize, misconceptualize, more...

Opposite:
characterize, describe, represent, portray

Types:
misrepresent, twist, distort, skew, garble, mangle, falsify, more...



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