misconstrue

Object

• provision: The claimant contends that the judge in the present case misconstrued the relevant provisions of Part 36.
• meaning: Sometimes some Hackers misconstrue the meaning of hacking and let it take on its appearence of what people think of it.
• word: The tribunal misconstrued the words " living at the premises " .
• thing: Phil has misconstrued some things, but has got much of my case right.
• work: I specifically raised this example to show how Pickering has misconstrued experimental work as purely trial and error.

Used with why or when

• what: I am not even sure that I can fairly be accused of misconstruing what you said.

Modifying Another Word

• often: The role of the governors is often misconstrued by third parties who try to impose another model of working with which they are familiar.
• not: It is important that we do not misconstrue his thought here.
• deliberately: Linda Watson is quoted as saying " truths that were so obvious were so deliberately misconstrued " .
• so: These points make it clear that Jesus ' words cannot be misconstrued so as to imply that he was denying his Deity.