misrepresentation vs equivocation

misrepresentation and equivocation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
misrepresentation	Yes	No	No	No
equivocation	Yes	No	No	No

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

misrepresentation: a willful perversion of facts
equivocation: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

Other hyponyms of misrepresentation include distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, tergiversation, fabrication, lying, prevarication, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

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

misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
equivocation: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Other hyponyms of misrepresentation include bill of goods, 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, evasion.

misrepresentation (noun)	equivocation (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
a misleading falsehood	intentionally vague or ambiguous
	a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

misrepresentation vs equivocation

misrepresentation and equivocation both are nouns.

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