Misrepresentative
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so. not-comparable
"When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants."
Example
More examples"When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants."
Etymology
From mis- + representative.
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