misreflect
Etymology
From mis- + reflect.
misreflect means to mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
verb
- To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.“To the censorious world, who like false glasses Mingling their own irregular figures, Misreflect the object, I fhall appear Some finful woman, sold to infamy.”
- To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.“Lest this record misreflect what the testimony was, I understood that the witness was talking in that percentage about failures, which would of course include dialing errors.”
- To think about in a distorted way“The gist of this horribly repugnant scene is that a person can be forced, because of the threat of unbearable pain, to misreflect upon his perceptions.”