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Misconstrue   /mɪskənstrˈu/   Listen
Misconstrue

verb
(past & past part. misconstrued; pres. part. misconstruing)
1.
Interpret in the wrong way.  Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand.  "She misconstrued my remarks"






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"Misconstrue" Quotes from Famous Books



... misjudged her utterly," Diana warmly assured her. "Of course," she added, sensitively afraid that the other might misconstrue her meaning, "I know you believed what you were saying, and that you only said it out of kindness to me. But you were ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler

... great sir, misconstrue his intent; Nor call rebellion what was prudent care, To guard himself by necessary war: While he believed you living, he obeyed; His governments but as your viceroy swayed: But, when he thought you gone To augment the number of the blessed ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden

... you greatly mistake, or else wilfully misconstrue. I am not unconcerned, yet there is a very wide difference, I am sure. This girl is at the Gayety from deliberate choice; she as much as told me so. She is in love with that sort of life. Probably she has never known anything better, while I am merely fighting out a ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... unfortunate that many people misconstrue this result of the organization of labor as a move toward the abolition of all social ranks and grades. It is nothing of the kind. Social gradations cannot be created or brushed away by any legislative enactment, or the acts of any single class. The combination of the workmen to secure ...
— Monopolies and the People • Charles Whiting Baker

... impatient. You misconstrue him. He honours, and he loves, nay, he must love The friend of his wife's youth. But ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb


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