misconstrued

verb

past tense of misconstrue
as in misunderstood
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of claimed that the press had misconstrued her comments

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Recent Examples of misconstrued Which, by the way, is also being misconstrued. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026 Sherman misconstrued my letter. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026 Some people may have misconstrued that as clear evidence that Guardiola, and City, have accepted the title race is over. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 14 May 2026 The first lady’s claim that feminism made women put career over family, to the nation’s detriment, misconstrued what feminism means. — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 13 May 2026 Over 50 people, including Churchill’s grandson, signed a letter saying Cammock had misconstrued the facts in her video. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 June 2026 In his group’s petition to the Supreme Court, Stockton argued the district court and Ninth Circuit misconstrued the law. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 May 2026 Prior to the Board’s decision, several Skokie residents came to the defense of Johnson, arguing that their previous advocacy efforts for the village have long been misconstrued. — Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026 Later, in the stadium, Amir Guerami from Westwood explained that many fans from the Southern California community wanted Iran to win but also wanted to make sure support of a team wasn’t misconstrued as support for the government. — Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misconstrued
  1. misunderstood
  2. misinterpreted
  3. misread
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  • Either dark energy is a real phenomenon, causing the universe to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate, or there is no dark energy at all, and scientists have somehow misunderstood the laws of gravity at cosmic scales.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of misunderstood
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  • Trump had campaigned on restricting birthright citizenship, arguing that the citizenship clause had been misinterpreted, and attended the April 2026 oral arguments in a first for a sitting president.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Anthropic reports 65% of its product team's code is AI-generated by Claude, a statistic often misinterpreted as broad automation.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of misinterpreted
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  • Without that detail, teams may misread brittle demos as readiness or blame the model for problems caused by weak infrastructure.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • However, Soto misread the ball bouncing off the turf completely, choosing to have an aggressive route toward the ball and potentially catch it on the short hop.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of misread

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