Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To describe wrongly or falsely.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To describe falsely or erroneously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To describe wrongly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To incorrectly explain or detail something or someone.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

mis- +‎ describe

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Examples

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?

    Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement? Chris Stedman 2011

  • Some of these complaints are well-founded, others are not; but even if all were true, they would misdescribe and undervalue what is going on here.

    China Makes, The World Takes 2007

  • Some of these complaints are well-founded, others are not; but even if all were true, they would misdescribe and undervalue what is going on here.

    China Makes, The World Takes 2007

  • The combination of 1 and 2 leads him to misdescribe the actual biology of cognition.

    Sugar and Saline 2009

  • Some of these complaints are well-founded, others are not; but even if all were true, they would misdescribe and undervalue what is going on here.

    China Makes, The World Takes 2007

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