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misrepresent

misrepresent : to make a misrepresentation about vi : to make a misrepresentation mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tive [-re-pri-zen-tə-tiv] adj mis·rep·re·sen·ter n ...

Misrepresentative

Tending to convey a wrong impression misrepresenting...

Misrepresent

To represent incorrectly almost always unfavorably to give a false or erroneous representation of either maliciously ignorantly or carelessly...

oversimplified

simplified excessively so as to distort or misrepresent of facts assertions or communications Contrasted with overcomplicated...

oversimplify

to simplify excessively so as to distort or misrepresent of facts assertions or communications as Dont oversimplify the rules...

Misrepresentation, 'Misrepresentation' means and includes--(1) the positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not true, though he believes it to be true;(2) any breach of duty which, without an intent to deceive, gains an advantage to the person committing it, or any one claiming under him, by misleading another to his prejudice or to the prejudice of any one claiming under him;(3) causing, however innocently, a party to an agreement, to make a mistake as to the substance of the thing which is the subject of the agreement. [(English) Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 18)]Misrepresentation, i.e., suggestio falsi, if a matter of substance essentially material to the subject, whether by acts or bywords, by man'uvres, or by positive assertions or material concealment (suppressio veri) whereby a person is misled and damnified.In equity it is immaterial whether the misrepresent or knew the matter to be false, or asserted it, wi...

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