misreflect
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
verb
To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.
verb
To think about in a distorted way
Example Sentences
- "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."