The relation of the peasant uprising to Luther's preaching is grossly misrepresented when the impression is created that Luther had before this sad upheaval worked hand in glove with the malcontent rustics for the overthrow of the government.
It was honestly misrepresentedby some, willfully misrepresented by others.
Johnson's instructions are both misunderstood and misrepresented by this grammarian.
This praise of our rule for the adjustment of quantity, would have been much more appropriate, had not the rule itself been greatly mistaken, perplexed, and misrepresented by the author.
His third lecture on Elocution, and many pages of the Rhetorical Grammar, are devoted to accent and quantity--subjects which he conceived to have been greatly misrepresented by other writers up to his time.
If so, our poetical quantities are greatly misrepresented by the rules above cited.
I knew she wanted me to believe that he had misrepresented her family, though she was certain he had not; therefore I only said that Fairview church looked very pretty from the high point over which the road led us.
But the early Christians were misrepresented and falsely charged with crime, even as you are.
If attacks upon the Republican party here at home have caused a different impression in any quarter, the responsibility belongs to those who have constantly and systematically maligned and misrepresented us.
Kant's commentators have frequently misrepresented this aspect of his teaching.
This is a matter in regard to which many of Kant's critics have misrepresented his teaching.
Even after the Revolution the place of New England, but especially Massachusetts, in the Republic has been sadly misrepresented in our American history as a rule, because our school historians at least have usually been Bostonians.
It is, above all, this phase of mediaeval teaching work, of the schoolmen's ardent interest that is misunderstood, often ignored and only too frequently misrepresented in the modern time.
For, in that case, he could not fail to have been acquainted with Paul's account of the Jerusalem conference, and he must have consciously misrepresented it.
Doubtless people who wanted to say something damaging, without too nice a regard to its truth or falsehood, have often enough misrepresented {218} my plain meaning.
First, I shall say a few words of the unfair use of my name, that you may see the reason of my being so much misrepresented to you, and also may be warned of the usurpation which your own name will inevitably suffer when you occupy my place.
The black man has beenmisrepresented by prejudiced historians and lecturers.
He assumed a basis of faith every whit as dogmatic as special revelation, and sometimes grievously misrepresented the creeds which he assailed.
If not, they must be unworthy of credit, more particularly in the amount of the Indian population, which was certainly greatly misrepresented by the Spanish historians, and which has been always overrated.
In it facts are distorted, opinions misapprehended, and the acts and policy of the government and its agents greatly misconceived in some things, and wholly misrepresented in others.
They misrepresented those who had written, and their evidence is abso- lutely worthless.
Mr. Talmage charges you with having misrepresented the Bible story of the deluge.
Of course, it will not do for me to say that Mr. Talmage has misrepresented the facts.
I shall subjoin as a Corollary to the foregoing Remark, an admirable Observation out of Aristotle, which hath been very much misrepresented in the Quotations of some Modern Criticks.
Mr. Dryden has in some Places, which I may hereafter take notice of, misrepresented Virgil's way of thinking as to this Particular, in the Translation he has given us of the AEneid.
After the Conference, the terms of the settlement were misrepresented by my opponents, and I felt called upon to put them in their proper light.
They wrested my words, they belied my deeds, they misinterpreted my motives, they misrepresented the whole course of my life, and the whole texture of my character.
The Duke was unwell for one day; of which the Newspapers obtained Intelligence; and as usual misrepresented and exaggerated the facts.
Begging Your Pardon you don't repeat accurately what I wrote respecting Your Hand writing; and you have consequently misrepresented my Meaning; which was however not worth attending to.
Few of the cardinal facts in our history have been more entirely misapprehended and misrepresentedthan this.
The movements of rude masses of men, the first founders of states and cities, are generally lost in obscurity, or misrepresented by patriotic zeal.
He has misrepresented everything, or he would not have been very amusing.
My quarrel with the northern enchanter is, that he has grossly misrepresented the twelfth century.
But how do you mean that he has misrepresented the twelfth century?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misrepresented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: biased; garbled; misquoted; perverted; slanted; strained; tortured; twisted
