misconstrue
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Ms. Hadden has since apologized for suggesting the victim caused her own death while blaming media for “intentionally creating sound bites to misconstrue my words during this tragedy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
And when a stock has been tumbling, it’s tempting to misconstrue a bit of good news for a change in trade.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
They’re trying to misconstrue it, like they have with other realities, which I try to ignore.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
Robert Wachter, chair of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, said people can easily misconstrue the CDC five-day guidance as a personal assurance of no longer being contagious.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
“Explanation will do for another time,” thought I. Still, when I reached my chamber, I felt a pang at the idea she should even temporarily misconstrue what she had seen.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing misconstrue
Power Prefix: mis-
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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