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  • noun Plural form of misread.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misread.

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Examples

  • Thus, she seizes on your email, "misreads" it and is saved a rejection.

    Exclusivity Sux Miss Snark 2005

  • 'misreads' on the belt, so they felt the number of readers on the belt system could be reduced.

    The Cranky Flier 2010

  • This radically misreads the historic context and is as ignorant or dishonest a tactic as that used by proponents of Intelligent Design who mine Darwin's writings for useful quotes.

    Astrology for science communicators 2011

  • Milton misreads Shakespeare, Blake misreads Milton, etc.

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • And, since financial markets, while volatile, have been largely on an upswing since August, he added that "there's a risk that Washington misreads improvement in the stock market and bond market as an opportunity to continue fighting along polarized lines, when it's really not."

    Investors' Dread-Letter Day: 11/23 Brendan Conway 2011

  • Suggesting otherwise -- that the tradition supports only one of these reactions -- misreads the tradition and makes it small.

    Brad Hirschfield: Is It Really Jewish To Celebrate Osama Bin Laden's Death? Brad Hirschfield 2011

  • In what he apparently takes to be a telling criticism of Bloom's practice as a critic, Benjamin Balint remarks that "We might say that Harold Bloom is the Rashi of misreadings, a kind of contemporary sage who, due perhaps to the excesses of reading itself, himself misreads — sometimes forcefully, sometimes weakly."

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • What is remarkable to me (but, again, not surprising) is how Dr. Williams, an accomplished and erudite theologian, misreads Scripture, misunderstands the language of the body, and misses the meaning and nature of sexuality, all while earnestly seeking to "engage" and "question" and "discuss" and gaze upon "experience."

    Cause and effect 2009

  • If so, I never heard of him until last week when I heard that ‘Benn Gleck’ misreads him (and everything else).

    Think Progress » Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson goes after right-wing fear-mongering on marriage equality. 2010

  • Suggesting otherwise -- that the tradition supports only one of these reactions -- misreads the tradition and makes it small.

    Brad Hirschfield: Is It Really Jewish To Celebrate Osama Bin Laden's Death? Brad Hirschfield 2011

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