misconstruction
Example Sentences
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But the venture of projecting an album into the future — especially one centered on climate catastrophe — can face its own set of preconceived expectations that can lead to misconstruction.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson told the Times, in a story that was otherwise a whitewash of Lukianoff’s FIRE, that the organization’s spin and the media coverage were “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2019
Arguably this is a misconstruction of the county prerogative.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2017
Faulkner later called this comment “foolish” and “more a misconstruction than a misquotation.”
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015
Knowing that without liberty there can be no loyalty, he did not fear, whether in his work or his life, to challenge and to deride the misconstruction of the foolish and the fraudulent.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
