misunderstand
Example Sentences
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Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.
“And those coded notes you and your sister received at the Shoulder of Mutton? That was all some sort of misunderstanding?”
From Literature
This misunderstanding is pushing policy in the wrong direction.
Douglas told police there had been a misunderstanding and that he wasn’t a danger to himself or others.
From Los Angeles Times
This dynamic points to a more basic misunderstanding about what institutions actually are.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
