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misrepresentative

adj

misrepresentative

adj

Etymology From mis- + representative.

1

Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.

  • When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants.2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 7:

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