misdescription

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ description.

Noun

misdescription (countable and uncountable, plural misdescriptions)

  1. An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.
    • 2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
      There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.

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