misdescription

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noun

An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.

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Meanings

nounmisdescription (countable and uncountable, plural misdescriptions)

plural misdescriptions

  1. countableuncountableAn inaccurate description, often fraudulent.

    There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.

    2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN

Origin

From mis- + description.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

descriptionism
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APA

misdescription. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdescription

MLA

“misdescription.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdescription. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misdescription,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdescription.

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