Misrepresentation vs Detraction - What's the difference?
misrepresentation | detraction |
Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
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(Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
As nouns the difference between misrepresentation and detraction
is that misrepresentation is erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.misrepresentation
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(wikipedia detraction)- If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world