misunderstand

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Misunderstanding
cross purposes
disconnection
don't get me wrongidiom
get the wrong end of the stickidiom
get your wires crossedidiom
labour
misconceive
misconceived
misconception
misconstruction
misguided
misread
miss
miss the pointidiom
mistaken
misunderstand
misunderstanding
non-comprehension
underestimate
wire

misconstrue | American Dictionary

misconstrue
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ˌmɪs·kənˈstru/
to form a false understanding of the meaning or intention of something that someone does or says:
Johnson complained that his statements were misconstrued.

Examples of misconstrue

misconstrue
It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.
When children misconstrue metaphors, idioms, and proverbs, they often do so in terms of literal interpretations of their constituent words.
The student did notice the teacher's corrective feedback but either misconstrued it or failed to make sense of it.
The narrower view misconstrued the case's cultural conflicts as racial or ethnic and offered no resolution.
The states that issue the license plate forbid taboo words, or anything anyone might misconstrue as such.
The role of the ecological concept of information, especially in its specificational sense is also misconstrued.
Written by current practitioners of social science, discipline history willfully misconstrued the past in the service of current disciplinary trends.
But ethics experts are not well fitted to do this, and to ask them to do it is to misconstrue their role.
There are reasons why localist models have been underused, though these often misconstrue the localist position.
However, this should not be misconstrued as an endorsement of this theory of constraint interaction.
Variation is often misconstrued to be nonadaptive because it insures that many individuals will be less than optimally suited to the environment.
This should not be misconstrued as proposing the usual division of the political and the religious.
This objection misconstrues my argument, which is for the value of capitalism, not its justness.
Yet to focus on political divisions is, in part, to misconstrue local understanding.
I say 'only', but this must not be misconstrued.
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