misreflect

verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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.

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.

2

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.

The final sentence of the policy statement appears also to misreflect the emphasis of the Act.

3

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.

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