Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give a false or misleading character to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To characterize falsely or erroneously; impute a wrong character to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
characterize falsely or mistakenly
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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York City Administrative Code on Sept. 15, 2005 to "mischaracterize" the court order as
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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Paladino later said that Democrats were trying to "mischaracterize" the messages and he didn't know if they were "true" because he was just forwarding what was sent to him by other people.
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