Past tense of misrepresent
regular verb
The past tense of misrepresent is misrepresented. The past participle is also misrepresented.
Forms of misrepresent
| Base form (V1) | misrepresent /ˌmɪsˌɹɛpɹəˈzɛnt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | misrepresented |
| Past participle (V3) | misrepresented |
| Present participle | misrepresenting |
| Third person singular | misrepresents |
Misrepresented in a sentence
- The fraudster misrepresented himself as a lawyer.
- How is it that you have been misrepresented like this?1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The...
- To the opposing party for damages for having misrepresented or miswarranted your authority.2021, Bernard A. Burk, Veronica J. Finkelstein, Nancy B. Rappoport, Ethical Lawyering: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned, page 166. From the entry miswarrant
- He maintained -- the thought is not unnatural in a royal historiographer -- that the generous actions of great princes are often twisted and misrepresented by interested critics.1982, Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth, Oxford University Press, page 99. From the entry interested
Meaning of misrepresent
- verb To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.
Questions about the past tense of misrepresent
- What is the past tense of misrepresent?
- The past tense of misrepresent is misrepresented.
- What is the past participle of misrepresent?
- The past participle of misrepresent is misrepresented.
- Is misrepresent a regular or irregular verb?
- Misrepresent is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misrepresent (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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