misread

Philip did not say anything, but Susan did not misread the look in his tired eyes.

This was obviously ironical, but it was irony that might easily be misread.

Those who attempt to explain his early concern with the West as purely altruistic must misread his numerous letters and diaries.

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

I wonder if you misread him so utterly as to believe that he thought himself something of a prize?

She misread his meaning—perhaps already the suspicion she now voiced had been in her mind.

Dr. Gemmell, who was present and had been watching her narrowly, misread the flush on her face and her restless desire to be gone.

Jim hesitates, and the painful perplexity written on his brow is misread by her.

The Pope may read it, because being infallible, he can not misread it.

But there was strength, not weakness, beneath these often misread indications of character.