I'm actually using it to describe a mistaken impression of Elizabeth herself. Not that she's mentally vacuous, but having scolded Mr. Darcy for being unsociable, he will naturally misunderstand that to mean she's nothing but sociable (how else is a proud man to take such a thing, after all?). I would like a simple word for her to refute, but I'm suspecting it's nonexistent, or at least recherché.
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