misrepresentative

Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.

Adjective

  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...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English representative English misrepresentative From mis- + representative.