misrepresentation vs bill of goods

bill of goods vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation and bill of goods both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
misrepresentation	Yes	No	No	No
bill of goods	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bill of goods is a hyponym of misrepresentation; that is, bill of goods is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than misrepresentation:

misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
bill of goods: communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable

Other hyponyms of misrepresentation include humbug, snake oil, half-truth, facade, window dressing, exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, snow job, dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense, blind, subterfuge, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery, duplicity, fraudulence, equivocation, evasion.

misrepresentation (noun)	bill of goods (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	a consignment of merchandise
a misleading falsehood	communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable

Difference between misrepresentation and bill of goods

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