misunderstanding

Because of this unfortunate misunderstanding, the spooky Madame might not be a welcome visitor at Ashton Place, which gave her good reason to travel in disguise.

“Yes, I’m well aware. It was all a misunderstanding. We’ll straighten things out tomorrow.”

“As I said, it is a misunderstanding. Do you remember the velocipede I was riding yesterday?”

The magnitude of the misunderstanding shocked him: These supposedly diversified piles of consumer loans now consisted almost entirely of U.S. subprime mortgages.

For centuries, depictions of the plague racing along the Silk Route, devastating cities and towns in its path, have been based on a misunderstanding of a rhyming story rather than a historical record.