Chapter Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, misquotation, garbling, exaggeration 549, false colouring, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, misstatement, etc. 544.

(Verbs). To misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misdeem, misspell, mistranslate, misconctrue, misapply, mistake 495.

To misstate, etc. 544; to pervert, falsify, distort, torture, travesty, stretch, strain, wring, or wrest the sense or meaning; to put a bad or false construction on; to misquote, garble, belie, explain away.

(Phrases). To make neither head nor tail of; to play at cross-purposes; to put a false construction on.

(Adjectives). Misinterpreted, etc., untranslated, untranslatable.

(Phrase). Traduttori traditori.

516. Interpreter (Substantives), expositor, exponent, demonstrator, scholiast, commentator, palèographer, spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece, guide, dragoman, cicerone, trucheman, oneirocritic; Œdipus 513.