misconstruction
Americannoun
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wrong construction; misinterpretation.
to put a misconstruction upon an action.
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an act or instance of misconstruing.
Etymology
Origin of misconstruction
First recorded in 1505–15; mis- 1 + construction
Example Sentences
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But the venture of projecting an album into the future — especially one centered on climate catastrophe — can face its own set of preconceived expectations that can lead to misconstruction.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson told the Times, in a story that was otherwise a whitewash of Lukianoff’s FIRE, that the organization’s spin and the media coverage were “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2019
Arguably this is a misconstruction of the county prerogative.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2017
Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history and African-American studies at Yale, said that FIRE’s spin, and the subsequent storm of media coverage, was “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016
"I fancied it was something like that," Lucinda commented, unsuspiciously enough but in a thoughtful tone open to misconstruction by an inquiet conscience.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
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