misinterpret
He is not responsible for any errors or misinterpretations in this essay.
The report said mistakes happened because of a misinterpretation of the law.
I think there was misinterpretation of his remarks by the media.

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
misconstrue
misread
miss
miss the pointidiom
mistaken
misunderstand
misunderstanding
non-comprehension
underestimate
wire

Examples of misinterpretation

misinterpretation
The possibility exists that a patient's decision has been made on inaccurate information or misinterpretation of data through inadequate understanding of medical jargon.
It is prone to misinterpretation since location is fundamental to measurement (given the energy expended on transport).
Electoral corruption therefore continues to be the subject to easy judgements and misinterpretation.
It is worth mentioning that misinterpretation of the instructions does lead to a gross navigational error that is undetectable.
In such cases, the problem of ontology mismatch is not so much the danger of misinterpretation as of incomprehensibility.
None of which is to claim that stars are alive, a common misinterpretation of such an eclectic stance.
In breadth tests, this rarely leads to misinterpretations; in choosing test items, an attempt is always made to achieve an equitable distribution over various domains.
In other words a classical example of misinterpretation based on mutual distrust that just escalated.
With each repetition, the misinterpretation, or better said, misrepresentation, became more and more elaborate and moved further and further from the mark.
He makes, however, one serious misinterpretation, which seems to have had consequences for his editorial decisions.
Developmental differences in the ability to inhibit the initial misinterpretation of garden path sentences.
Two misinterpretations of the term "existential" must be ruled out from the very beginning.
A short review cannot arrest all the small errors and misinterpretations.
Trying to integrate data from disparate fields inevitably leads to misinterpretation of some information.
Of course, none of these individuals bears any responsibility for inaccuracies or misinterpretations that might appear in the text.
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