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mischaracterise

mischaracterise is the alternative spelling of mischaracterize.

Meaning of mischaracterize

Verb

mischaracterize (third-person singular simple present mischaracterizes, present participle mischaracterizing, simple past and past participle mischaracterized)

  1. To characterize falsely or mistakenly
    • Our small disagreement has been mischaracterized as a deep rift.

Forms of mischaracterise

third-person singular presentmischaracterises
present participlemischaracterising
past participlemischaracterised
pastmischaracterised

Origin of mischaracterise

From mis- + characterise.

Questions about mischaracterise

What is mischaracterise the alternative spelling of?
Mischaracterise is the alternative spelling of mischaracterize.

Words near mischaracterise in the dictionary

  1. mischannelled
  2. mischannelling
  3. mischannels
  4. mischaracterisation
  5. mischaracterisations
  6. mischaracterise
  7. mischaracterised
  8. mischaracterises
  9. mischaracterising
  10. mischaracterization
  11. mischaracterizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mischaracterise (page history and authors); mischaracterize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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