View synonyms for misconstrue

misconstrue

[ mis-kuhn-strooor, especially British, mis-kon-stroo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, mis·con·strued, mis·con·stru·ing.

to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
Synonyms: misjudge, misapprehend, misread

misconstrue

/ ˌmɪskənˈstruː /

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; mis- ¹, construe

Surely, an unreconstructed snob could misconstrue much more.

"After the Mark Sanford thing, I didn't want anybody to misconstrue [my vacation]," Flake said.

The fairest observers misconstrue all motives to action, where any received prepossession has found an hypothesis.

I put in, to laugh Uvo out of the morbid vein which I understood in him but others might easily misconstrue.

Let us find out what we are talking about, lest we should misconstrue and misunderstand each other.

But we must not misconstrue words in our versions of a style so loose.

You will not misconstrue my words, but—but life is not always the same, is it?

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