Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inaccurate explanation, interpretation, or report; a misunderstanding.
- noun Grammar A faulty construction, especially of a sentence or clause.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of misconstruing; wrong interpretation; a mistaking of the true meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
misunderstanding ormisinterpretation resulting from the use of thewrong meaning of aword that has multiplemeanings - noun grammar an
ungrammatical phrase
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
- noun an ungrammatical constituent
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term misconstruction was used by the Congress of 1791 ... as misconstruction is verifiable truth ... the historical proof.
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The term misconstruction was used by the Congress of 1791 ... as misconstruction is verifiable truth ... the historical proof.
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Barton apologizes for 'misconstruction' of BP apology
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He had written his wife at the same time, leaving her free to remain at Fürstenstein, or to join him at once and go with him to her old home to see her brother again; now, after two weeks, if she chose to leave, no "misconstruction" could be placed upon her departure.
The Northern Light E. Werner 1878
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Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data.
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Merchants that accept debit cards "are substantially harmed" by the Fed's "misconstruction" of the Dodd-Frank law's provision limiting debit card fees, the plaintiffs said in the lawsuit.
Retailers Sue Fed Over Debit-Card Fee Rule Maya Jackson Randall 2011
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Note the date and the complete misconstruction of what I said.
Todd Palin responds to Joe Miller e-mail flap Matt DeLong 2010
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But this is largely a misconstruction of the whole issue.
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010
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Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular 2010
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In this instance, errors tend to entrench “bad law,” where “bad law” amount to deliberate misconstruction of binding precedent.
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