to provide false or misleading information about (a product, service, etc)
Once home, check what the holiday brochure said: it is an offence for a firm to misdescribewhat it is offering.
If this weren't bad enough, he goes on to woefully misquote and misdescribe theirresearch.
misdescribe in American English
(ˌmɪsdɪˈskraib)
transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -scribed, -scribing
to describe incorrectly or falsely
Derived forms
misdescription (ˌmɪsdɪˈskrɪpʃən)
noun
misdescriptive
adjective
Word origin
[1820–30; mis-1 + describe]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, blouse, boomerang, exogenous, insidermis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust
Examples of 'misdescribe' in a sentence
misdescribe
That is what happens when you misdescribe inequality as poverty.