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misread

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The person who had phoned the Halls had, quite simply, misread the results.

When a health-care worker misread test results, it left the Halls with a daughter with a rare genetic syndrome.

A technician made a simple, life-changing mistake and misread the test tubes.

Nor is the stubborn, shrewd prime minsiter known to capitulate easily, or to misread public sentiment.

But to a large degree, the debt doomsayers misread the data.

If this were a type and instance of hopeless love he had certainly misread all the songs and sayings.

He misread words and letters of the MS., although he had two transcripts.

She had a way of yielding so quickly, when it was right and best, very flattering to a man in love and easily misread.

The crown of life had been attained, the vague yearnings, the misread impulses, had found accomplishment at last.

To suppose, as some hasty moralisers have done, that Charles cared for nothing but his women is to misread his character.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misread, such as: confuse, miscalculate, misconstrue, misinterpret, misjudge, and confound.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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