Thesaurus / misunderstand
FEEDBACKHow to use misunderstand in a sentence
Judges have routinely ruled that people who signed affidavits to that effect either misunderstood the process or were wrong.
‘THESE ARE NOT CRAZY PEOPLE’: GOP DEFENDS ITS VOTER-FRAUD PUSH, IGNORING OBVIOUS PERILSAARON BLAKEDECEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTI don’t deny the existence of the arrow, but I do suggest that the “box mentality” has led us to misunderstand what is happening in the universe and even blinded us to the beauty that it is creating.
TIME FLOWS TOWARD ORDER - ISSUE 93: FORERUNNERSJULIAN BARBOURDECEMBER 2, 2020NAUTILUSIt’s common for even native English speakers to misunderstand or mischaracterize something on their application, said Anne Paxton, an attorney at the Unemployment Law Project, a legal aid organization based in Washington state.
HE MADE A MINOR MISTAKE FILLING OUT AN UNEMPLOYMENT FORM. THEN THE STATE DEMANDED $14,990 FROM HIM.BY AVA KOFMANOCTOBER 29, 2020PROPUBLICAThere’s also an interesting thread in the book about being misunderstood while trying to figure yourself out at the same time.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FORTUNE’S 40 UNDER 40 IN TECHRACHEL KINGSEPTEMBER 4, 2020FORTUNEIf it set back anyone it was probably a generation of psychology students who may have misunderstood this.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICSBut you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONYou only misunderstand each other, and with a little good will on both sides you can easily get out of your tangle.'
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESYou misunderstand me, my friend; I want to know whether he attacked him with any evil intent?
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThe active temperament is almost bound to misunderstand the imaginative or artistic spirit and its difficulties.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDDo not misunderstand me, however, and imagine that I wish to exalt Chopin at the expense of another great musician.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO MISUNDERSTAND
- bark up wrong tree
- be misled
- be overcritical
- be partial
- be unfair
- be wrong
- come to hasty conclusion
- dogmatize
- drop the ball
- err
- misapprehend
- miscalculate
- miscomprehend
- misconceive
- misconjecture
- misconstrue
- misdeem
- misreckon
- miss by a mile
- mistake
- misthink
- misunderstand
- overestimate
- overrate
- prejudge
- presume
- presuppose
- put foot in
- stumble
- suppose
- underestimate
- underrate
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