misdescription
English
editEtymology
editFrom mis- + description.
Noun
editmisdescription (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.
Related terms
edit- misascription
- misdescribe (verb)