misrepresentation vs humbug

humbug vs misrepresentation

misrepresentation and humbug both are nouns.

misrepresentation is not a verb while humbug is a verb.

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

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

misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
humbug: communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

Other hyponyms of misrepresentation include bill of goods, 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)	humbug (noun)
a willful perversion of facts	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
a misleading falsehood	pretentious or silly talk or writing
	communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

misrepresentation (verb)	humbug (verb)
	trick or deceive

Difference between misrepresentation and humbug

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