misreporting

verb

present participle of misreport
as in misleading

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misreporting
  1. misleading
  2. distorting
  3. falsifying
  4. deceiving
  5. concealing
Verb
  • Hanaway said in a statement that the Attorney General’s Office takes misleading solicitation seriously.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Lembke encouraged parents to get ahead of the issue by talking openly about drugs before their children encounter inaccurate or misleading information on social media.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of misleading
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  • The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of distorting
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  • Lui is accused of falsifying the export documentation and using Malaysia and Singapore as pass-through countries to send the GPUs to China.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The four officers were charged with making false arrests, planting evidence, using excessive force, falsifying police reports and assaulting people in west Oakland, a predominantly Black area.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of falsifying
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  • But 3-0 marks can be deceiving heading into a battle of unbeatens at home against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Boulder County accused the fossil fuel companies of deceiving the general public about the dangers of their oil and gas operations and the associated greenhouse gas emissions through their advertising and marketing.
    — Callie Patteson, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of deceiving
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  • In both incidents, the suspects are shown concealing their faces.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Both were accused of concealing the dangers of their very profitable products.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of concealing
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“Misreporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misreporting. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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