Misrepresented Sentence Examples

His character has been misrepresented by Roman writers, whom his name inspired with terror down to the times of the empire.

But this governor was obstructed and misrepresented by local politicians as vehemently as his predecessors and his successors.

They misrepresented its terms, broke them, and accused the regent of breaking them.

Hutton himself frequently misrepresented the doctrine by describing it as "belief in an unknown and unknowable God"; but agnosticism as defined by Huxley meant not belief, but absence of belief, as much distinct from belief on the one hand as from disbelief on the other; it was the half-way house between the two, where all questions were "open."

One intrigue into which he drifted in 1791, with a Mrs Reynolds, led to the blackmailing of Hamilton by her husband; and when this rascal, shortly afterwards, got into trouble for fraud, his relations with Hamilton were unscrupulously misrepresented for political purposes by some of Hamilton's opponents.

Yet in this matter Gibbon has been grossly misapprehended and misrepresented.

It was on this understanding (which Las Cases afterwards misrepresented) that Napoleon on the 15th of July mounted the deck of the "Bellerophon."

Beethoven, we know, lost sympathy with his early works as he grew older; but that was because his later works absorbed his interest, not because his early works misrepresented his ideals.

In 1778 he published at Amsterdam his Legislation orientale, in which he endeavoured to prove that the nature of oriental despotism had been greatly misrepresented.

In 1690 he moved a famous amendment to the Corporation Bill, proposing the addition of a clause - the purport of which was misrepresented by Macaulay - for disqualifying for office for seven years municipal functionaries who in defiance of the majority of their colleagues had surrendered their charters to the Crown.

In 1873 he published an important contribution to science, a map and paper in which he proved that the existing maps of Asia entirely misrepresented the physical formation of the country, the main structural lines being in fact from south-west to north-east, not from north to south, or from east to west as had been previously supposed.

In Holland and Zeeland William was supreme, but elsewhere his aims and his principles were misrepresented and misunderstood.

A hundred bad writers misrepresented him and reviled him; but not one of the hundred could boast of having been thought by him worthy of a refutation, or even of a retort.

Hence arose that "adiaphoristic" controversy in connexion with which he has been misrepresented as holding among matters of indifference such cardinal doctrines as justification by faith, the number of the sacraments, as well as the dominion of the pope, feast-days, and so on.

The great Puritan hero was a man after his own heart, and the portrait drawn by so sympathetic a writer is not only intensely vivid, but a very effective rehabilitation of misrepresented character.

This explanation of the decline is supported by the almost unanimous opinion of the medical profession in the countries in question, and substantial evidence can be found everywhere of the extensive prevalence of the doctrine and practice of what has been termed, in further derogation of the repute of the "much misrepresented Malthus," Neomalthusianism.

His conduct in this matter has been constantly misrepresented.

If tradition has not misrepresented these paradoxes of time, space and motion, there is in Zeno's reasoning an element of fallacy.

Accepting he's telling the truth, the original article has undoubtedly grossly misrepresented what he said in interview.

However, the campaign against my articles has deliberately misrepresented them by suggesting that I am blaming.

This dispute poisoned his relationship with the then unknown newton, as the secretary repeatedly misrepresented hooke to newton.

Any buds which appear crushed or compressed, which contain seeds or which have a stale smell, are probably misrepresented imported bush.

It is often misrepresented as a wood because it is stronger than many hardwoods, including oak.

Residents of the Romanian village where Borat scenes were filmed filed a suit asserting that they were misrepresented.

Taylor is alleging that the entertainment network misrepresented her and she is filing a slander lawsuit.

The German Shepherd Dog is one of the most easily recognized, and often misrepresented of all dog breeds.

Pearls can be faked or misrepresented therefore buying from a specialist jeweler will give peace of mind.

Some officials question whether the company misrepresented the financial stability and condition of its mortgage loans in security filings, knowing the company was facing financial difficulties.

It is a good idea to do this within a week of the initial purchase so you can return the ring, if the appraisal reveals the ring was misrepresented in the sale.

When you purchase a ring, always make sure the jeweler has a refund policy just in case the ring turns out to be misrepresented or an inauthentic version.

One example is if the employee quit because the job was misrepresented in the initial interview.

Moreover, hedonism has, especially by its critics, been very much misrepresented owing mainly to two simple misconceptions.