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What (who) is misconstrue - definition
misconstrue
[m?sk?n'stru:]
¦ verb (misconstrues, misconstruing, misconstrued) interpret wrongly.
misconstrue
(misconstrues, misconstruing, misconstrued)
If you misconstrue something that has been said or something that happens, you interpret it wrongly. (FORMAL)
An outsider might misconstrue the nature of the relationship...
= misinterpret
VERB: V n
Misconstrue
·vt To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.
Examples of use of misconstrue
1. Through an adult lens, it‘s easy to misconstrue children‘s behaviour.
2. "People should not misconstrue this as the price to be paid for speaking out within the Pentagon," Morrell said.
3. "Words in that draft led some to misconstrue the department‘s intent," Leavitt told reporters during a telephone news conference.
4. The movie skewers journalists, and self–proclaimed deep thinkers, through Opal, played by Geraldine Chaplin, a BBC documentary maker with an unerring ability to misconstrue everything.
5. " . . . To think of this as the bestowal of a favor is to utterly misconstrue the nature of the deliberations." Bush commuted the sentence hours after a three–judge panel of the U.S.