Misrepresent

Don't misrepresent yourself.

Antisemites will take a leftist Jew saying, "There should be no borders," and a right-wing Jew saying, "Israel needs to defend its borders," and misrepresent them both as part of the same united effort with the same goals.

Journalists need to be careful not to misrepresent information.

The truth was too beautiful and too curious, the proofs which he was able to produce were too logical and too conclusive for him to consent to misrepresent it.

Don't misrepresent your age!

The fraudster misrepresented himself as a lawyer.

Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'