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To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
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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.
I could see no more of her face that the sharp bridge of her nose. Except what I caught misreflected in the hair dryer – her enlarged ear.
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he could create for himself an ordered darkness, an equality of misery, a justice in the sharing of the darkness, his own hole, by right, in that darkness, and his sense of light, his illuminations, were an evolutionary freak, an artificial glow that had etiolated him into hopeless pale unnatural underground yellow green deformities, a light misreflected through some unintended chink, too far away for such low creatures ever to reach it and flourish by it.
Does your life ever feel like a continuum of one aberration, misreflected in a series of cracked rearview mirrors?
To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.
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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.
The final sentence of the policy statement appears also to misreflect the emphasis of the Act.
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In cardiovascular crises acute fast phenomena frequently dominate the issues of outcome; as a consequence, clinical manifestations often lag seriously behind and tend to misreflect the actual underlying pathophysiology.
He continually made references to some request that he come to consut with the prisoners which we thought was sidetracking the issue, and his testimony before the Senate committee seems to confirm the fact in my mind that he continue to try to misrepresent or misreflect what actually happened.
Its agenda is not reducing exceptions to sex-based default rules but the rules themselves; not just generalizations that misreflect reality, but generalizations that become reality.
To think about in a distorted way
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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.