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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misdescribe .
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Examples
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The department said an investigation in October 2008 revealed the estate agent had 'misdescribed' the new properties as being finished with 'pink pebble driveways', when the driveways were to be left unfinished.
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The often misdescribed wilderness is no longer there, having been modified too much by us humans, but the wildness remains over large tracts of the landscape.
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It's been misdescribed by the president and many others.
Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011
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It's been misdescribed by the president and many others.
Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011
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The prosecution says it was misdescribed as routine "slops" from ordinary tank-cleaning.
Trafigura faces criminal charges over attempt to offload toxic waste 2010
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You, as a casual reader of poems, and as a casual listener to pop songs, understand meter better than the metrists who misdescribed it over several centuries understood it.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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You, as a casual reader of poems, and as a casual listener to pop songs, understand meter better than the metrists who misdescribed it over several centuries understood it.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Upon moving into the White House, Obama adopted that treaty (the misdescribed SOFA agreement) as his own and dropped the 16-month withdrawal commitment.
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It has come to my attention that I have misdescribed the cat I was ogling the other day.
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"CBS This Morning" misdescribed Hiss as "a State Department lawyer in the 1950s."
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