misreveal

present singular third person misreveals · participle present misrevealing · participle past misrevealed · past misrevealed

1. To reveal something that is not true.

   Six methods are allegedly used to misreveal data: double bookkeeping, excessive aggregation, extra-budgetary finance, unidentified use of foreign exchange, military aid, and defense-related debt burden.

   1992, Geoffrey Lamb, Valeriana Kallab, World Bank, Military Expenditure and Economic Development, page 5

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   If the visual image openly leads the total imagery experience on the one hand, it als may be subterranean and strategic on the other hand, as in dreams, publicity ads and social or political strategy where a vivid visual image misreveals a truth and misdirects the visualizer.

   1995, Journal of Mental Imagery - Volume 19, page 114

   Studies of federal states, especially of the erstwhile command economies, have stressed how regional officials had an incentive to misreveal their achieved targets, fearing an enhancement of planning targets for the next year.

   2005, Aseema Sinha, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India, page 39

   In other words, any individual (resp. a group of individuals) before trying to misreveal his (resp. their) sincere preference(s) usually will try to anticipate the reactions of other individuals (outside the coalition), and will not try to manipulate strategically if there is a possibility of other individuals being able to punish him (resp. any one of them) for the disruption.

   2012, M.J. Holler, The Logic of Multiparty Systems, page 90