How to Use mischaracterize in a Sentence

mischaracterize

verb

• Bragg's statement of facts about the case said the scheme mischaracterized the payments for tax purposes, but one of Trump's lawyers has denied that.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Post mischaracterizes albedo effect The post refers to the concept of albedo, which is a measure of the amount of light that a surface reflects.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Laraby mischaracterized Cathy as a brunette and heavy set.
  — Michael Loftus, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Some of the posts mischaracterized video or showed graphic footage and have driven the spread of misinformation on X and elsewhere across the internet.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Editor’s note: The original version of this review mischaracterized the scene in which Lali makes a deal with the Auschwitz doctor in exchange for medicine for Gita.
  — Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
• An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the ACLU's role in the lawsuit.
  — USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
• The participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.
  — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Nonetheless, Moyn’s narrow focus on the law sometimes leads him to mischaracterize parts of his story.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2021
• Ruth Holton-Hudson mischaracterizes the Exxon lawsuits, cherry-picks the stock data and blames the fossil fuel companies for climate change.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
• But the declaration appears to have mischaracterized the 911 call.
  — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• So sometimes, obviously, as a player, things get mischaracterized or your voice gets drowned out.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2024
• In social media posts and fund-raising emails, Mr. Trump grossly mischaracterized the policy by suggesting that the bureau had authorized agents to kill him during the search.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• View in new tab In a four-page letter sent late Wednesday, Mayes said Livingston mischaracterized her office's investigation.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• However, many of those in opposition to Khoury’s remarks say the issue was being mischaracterized.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
• Trump is hardly the first American to mischaracterize his own privilege as fortitude, but from his lips, that error is uniquely and doubly pernicious.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2020
• The academics with whom the science of crypto tracing originated acknowledge that it should not be applied as evidence in isolation, or mischaracterized as some sort of a smoking gun.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• But the feeling among Bahamians working in the crypto sector is that the country has been unjustly punished for its association with FTX, and that its role in the company’s failure has been mischaracterized.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Advocates and doctors who treat trans youth have said many of the health care restrictions proposed by state legislators mischaracterize what gender-affirming care is.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2023
• The post also mischaracterizes aluminum by calling it a preservative.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the amount of daily sodium recommended by the FDA.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
• In the last few months, a member of Congress has carelessly made nonsensical, ignorant public remarks that trivialize and mischaracterize the true horror of the Holocaust.
  — Elie Honig, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• Content that has the propensity to create specific harm will be removed, whereas tweets that mischaracterize or represent general harm will be labeled as such.
  — Danielle Abril, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2020
• The groups are using Facebook to mischaracterize mainstream research by claiming that reduced consumption of fossil fuels won’t help address climate change.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 6 July 2020
• Trump’s quickly lawyers seized on the varying descriptions of the material to suggest that the district attorney’s office was mischaracterizing both the material and the seriousness of the dispute.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• On Monday, attorneys for Mitchell’s estate, administered by his mother, Margaret Mitchell, argued that the claim was mischaracterized.
  — al, 7 Mar. 2023
• What prosecutors needed to prove is that Trump made them in order to cover up other crimes, such as violating campaign finance law and mischaracterizing the payments for tax purposes.
  — Andrea Bernstein, NPR, 30 May 2024
• In this way, critics argued, psychiatry was being mischaracterized by Yager’s views.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• An article on May 27 about how to deal with airline cancellations and delays mischaracterized data on flight delays from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2023
• An earlier version of this article mischaracterized an index published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Correction: a previous version of this story mischaracterized the global increase in sea levels.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024