misrepresentative
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mis- + representative.
Adjective
[edit]misrepresentative (not comparable)
- Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
- 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
- When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants.