Noun

(en noun)

The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 12, author=Danny Hakim, title=Legislature Acts to Restore Spitzer’s Cuts in Health Care, work=New York Times citation

, passage=In a statement last month, Mr. Spitzer said, “No amount of distortion, scare tactics and mischaracterization will change the underlying fact that New York’s health care system is broken.” }}