misdescription
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
mis- + description
Noun[edit]
misdescription (countable and uncountable, plural misdescriptions)
- An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.
- 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
- There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.