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mischaracterized

mischaracterized is the simple past and past participle 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.

Questions about mischaracterized

What is mischaracterized the simple past and past participle of?
Mischaracterized is the simple past and past participle of mischaracterize.

Words near mischaracterized in the dictionary

  1. mischaracterises
  2. mischaracterising
  3. mischaracterization
  4. mischaracterizations
  5. mischaracterize
  6. mischaracterized
  7. mischaracterizes
  8. mischaracterizing
  9. mischarge
  10. mischarged
  11. mischarges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mischaracterized (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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