misrepresentation vs evasion

evasion vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation and evasion both are nouns.

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

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

misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
evasion: 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, equivocation.

misrepresentation (noun)	evasion (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
a misleading falsehood	nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
	the deliberate act of failing to pay money
	a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Difference between misrepresentation and evasion

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