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misconstrue
verb as in get a wrong or false impression
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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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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misconstrue, such as: distort, exaggerate, misinterpret, misread, misunderstand, and pervert.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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