misdescription

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ description.

Noun

misdescription (countable and uncountable, plural misdescriptions)

1. 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.

Related terms

• misascription
• misdescribe (verb)

 

See also

• misidentification

 

Anagrams

• mispredictions