in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"
in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"
an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting; "certain representations were made concerning police brutality"
a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract; "the sales contract contains several representations by the vendor"
a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency; "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California"
the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"
be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"
without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"