1645 F. Rous Anc. Bounds 33 Consider likewise, what a misrepresenting of Christ the King of the Church this compulsion is, and what a prejudice against the meeknesse of his government.

1688 Pulpit-sayings 14 Such, who pretend to be clear from the Imputation of Misrepresenting.

1699 J. Collier Def. Short View Eng. Stage 90 He understands the Art of Misrepresenting.

1880 New Englander Mar. 162 It is this undervaluing and misrepresenting of Christianity which give a certain tone and coloring to this very thoughtful work.

1985 Financial Times (Nexis) 21 June i. 16 As an authorised bank JMB was guilty of serious misrepresenting.

1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. Addr. To Public 438 I shall repeat what I have written before I saw this Letter, this strange, this inconsistent, this misrepresenting Letter of yours.

1801 J. Wolcot Wks. P. Pindar (1816) V. 370 (note) The fool's cap which the conquering and contemptuous enemy now and then clapped on the heads of some of our Generals, has been, by the hocus pocus of a misrepresenting newspaper, converted into a triumphal Crown.

1836 Southern Literary Messenger 2 692/2 The disagreeable feelings produced by the peculiar position of being a misrepresenting representative.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Nov. 12/1 It [sc. a company] can recover the purchase money from the misrepresenting vendors.

1994 Jrnl. Money, Credit, & Banking 26 545 There are many rabbits going into Williamson's hat including..4. the misrepresenting or liar rabbit.