Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to be misinterpreted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
misinterpreted ; liable to bemisunderstood .
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Examples
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Perhaps owing to its misinterpretable name, the group was reportedly dropped by Facebook this morning for being "hateful, threatening, or obscene."
Once a Local Legal Battle, Is Prop 8 On Its Way to 'Net-Fueled Cultural Moment? 2008
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Reagan's future may have looked like the robber barons 'past, but it looked like something, it had a discernible shape that made its various programs and policies interpretable or misinterpretable as goal directed behavior.
Marshall Grossman: Obama, Clinton and the Reagan Flap: The Vision Thing Again 2008
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Perhaps owing to its misinterpretable name, the group was reportedly dropped by Facebook this morning for being "hateful, threatening, or obscene."
Once a Local Legal Battle, Is Prop 8 On Its Way to 'Net-Fueled Cultural Moment? Scola, Nancy 2008
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The Bible Retranslation Project recognizes two fundamental aspects of a modern language that causes it to be a constant state of flux or change: familiar terms change their meanings, so text using them becomes misinterpretable new, more precise terms appear at a rate of about 1000 per year.
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Judge the woman by her record, not by one ill-advised and it was ill-advised if only because it’s so easily misinterpretable comment in one speech.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor’s “Latina Judge’s Voice” Speech Revisited: 2009
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* familiar terms change their meanings, so text using them becomes misinterpretable
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* familiar terms change their meanings, so text using them becomes misinterpretable
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