misstatement of fact

misstatement of fact
I noun distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, false coloring, false statement, falsification, garbled version, misconstruction, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, perversion, untruth associated concepts: perjury, subornation of perjury II index misrepresentation

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