(v. t. & i.) To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
Example Sentences:
Misconstrue
Definition:
(v. t.) To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kramer has oversimplified and misconstrued statements by Rorschach, Beck, and Bohm; in reality, the criterion for the scoring of M responses in the Comprehensive System differs very little, if at all, from that suggested by Rorschach.
(2) But this argument misconstrues what is necessary to succeed in Iraq, and stubbornly ignores the facts of the broader strategic picture that we face.
(3) People have misconstrued what was in that report, particularly the IOC and international federations.
(4) Perhaps for all of the potential upsides there are still too many opportunities to fall foul of “death and gaffe watch” journalists waiting to pounce on a too-easily-misconstrued twitter picture.
(5) Interviewers must be tactful.” They need to try to clarify discrepancies and if they’re not convinced or the stories don’t add up, and the client has the right to explain anything that may have been misconstrued.
(6) Johnson, holding the press conference in the Foreign Office, said: “We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years … All of which, in my view, have been taken out of context, through what alchemy I do not know – somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.
(7) On Wednesday three judges at the supreme court found the PSNI had “misconstrued” its legal powers to stop parades passing through or adjacent to the Short Strand area.
(8) On Wednesday, Nitschke’s legal team – led by Richard Niall QC after the death of Nitschke’s former lawyer Peter Nugent last month – said the medical board “misconstrued” its code of conduct when suspending Nitschke’s licence, and denied procedural fairness during the November hearing.
(9) The proposals were wilfully misconstrued as "a cap on rents", when they are nothing of the sort.
(10) Data in the frequency domain could be misconstrued, unless peculiarities of some acoustical measuring systems are understood.
(11) "It is regrettable a lot of facts and details got put out and misconstrued.
(12) That is, in at least some instances, one condition may have been mistaken for the other, and thus a factitious overlap or "sameness" misconstrued.
(13) The Vietnamese concepts of health and disease are presented, along with brief descriptions of certain folk medicines that are frequently misconstrued by American physicians.
(14) A spokesman added: "We never intended to promote our medicines for unauthorised indications but we can see how the communication could have been misconstrued especially if taken out of the context in which it written.
(15) We report a case of ventilator autocycling in a paralyzed patient secondary to an endotracheal cuff leak which was misconstrued as assisted ventilation.
(16) The principal influences investigated include the misconstrued emphasis given to the humanist ideology, which properly stresses the dignity of the individual; the social sciences' relativization of the cultural norms defining homosexuality; the influence of the mass media in disseminating these perspectives and thereby tending to create an acceptable image of homosexuality, and the tendency of all these changes to result in a substantial increase in public acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality.
(17) This paper argues 1) that an examination of cases shows that lying and deception are often morally equivalent, and 2) that Jackson's position is premised on a species of moral functionalism that misconstrues the nature of moral obligation.
(18) Standing alongside John Kerry , the US secretary of state, Johnson claimed his remarks had been misconstrued, that his past journalism had been taken out of context, and world leaders he had met since his appointment fully understood his past remarks.
(19) Fine, if he wants to spear me years later by deliberately misconstruing what I was saying to him.
(20) It wanted to make sure that the largest demonstration in the history of the US capital, demanding jobs and freedom and denouncing racism, was not misconstrued by the nation's enemies or potential allies.