misrepresentative

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ representative

Adjective

misrepresentative (not comparable)

  1. 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.
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