misreflect

Definitions

1. To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
2. To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.
3. To think about in a distorted way

Examples

“To the censorious world, who like⟳ false glasses Mingling their own⟳ irregular figures, Misreflect the object, I fhall appear⟳ Some finful woman, sold to infamy.”

“I could see⟳ no more of her face⟳ that the sharp bridge of her nose. Except what I caught misreflected in the hair dryer – her enlarged ear.”

“he could create⟳ for himself an ordered darkness, an equality of misery, a justice in the sharing of the darkness, his own⟳ hole, by right, in that darkness, and his sense⟳ of light⟳, his illuminations, were an evolutionary freak, an artificial glow that had etiolated him into hopeless pale unnatural underground yellow green deformities, a light⟳ misreflected through some unintended chink, too far away for such low creatures ever to reach⟳ it and flourish by it.”

“Does your life ever feel⟳ like⟳ a continuum of one aberration, misreflected in a series of cracked rearview mirrors?”

“Lest this record⟳ misreflect what the testimony was, I understood that the witness was talking in that percentage about failures, which would of course include⟳ dialing errors.”

“The final sentence of the policy statement appears also to misreflect the emphasis of the Act.”

“In cardiovascular crises acute fast phenomena frequently dominate the issues of outcome; as a consequence, clinical manifestations often lag seriously behind and tend⟳ to misreflect the actual underlying pathophysiology.”

“He continually made references to some request⟳ that he come⟳ to consut with the prisoners which we thought was sidetracking the issue⟳, and his testimony before the Senate committee seems to confirm⟳ the fact in my mind⟳ that he continue⟳ to try⟳ to misrepresent or misreflect what actually happened.”

“Its agenda is not reducing exceptions to sex-based default rules but the rules themselves; not just generalizations that misreflect reality, but generalizations that become⟳ reality.”

“The gist of this horribly repugnant scene is that a person can be forced, because of the threat of unbearable pain, to misreflect upon his perceptions.”

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