Represent falsely:
— This statement misrepresents my intentions.

synonym: belie.

Roget 555: misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub; burlesque, parody, travesty.   

Roget 477: judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random.    reason ill, falsely etc. adj.; misjudge etc. 481; paralogize^†.    take on faith, take as a given; assume (supposition) 514.    pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach etc. 538^†; mislead etc. (error) 495; cavil, refine, subtilize^†, split hairs; misrepresent etc. (lie) 544.    beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion.    cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers [Fr.], put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.    judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment) 481.    ... show more

Roget 523: misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake etc. 495.    misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble etc. (falsify) 544; distort, detort^†; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring.    be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.    ... show more

Roget 538: misinform, misteach^†, misdescribe^†, misinstruct^†, miscorrect^†; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive etc. 545; mislead etc. (error) 495; misrepresent; lie etc. 544; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.] [Vergil]. propagandize, disinform.    render unintelligible etc. 519; bewilder etc. (uncertainty) 475; mystify etc. (conceal) 528; unteach.    [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist.    ... show more

Dutch: vertekenen

Tamper, with the purpose of deception.

synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle.

Roget 544: be false etc. adj., be a liar etc. 548; speak falsely etc. adv.; tell a lie etc. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness.    misstate, misquote, miscite^†, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon etc. (misinterpret); prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand [Fr.]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.    garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate etc. 549; blague^†.    invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance etc. (imagine) 515; cry 'wolf!'.    dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect etc. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.    cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; commend the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.]; deceive etc. 545.    ... show more