misconstrue Betydning & definition

Eksempler på misconstrue

• It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.

• When children misconstrue metaphors, idioms, and proverbs, they often do so in terms of literal interpretations of their constituent words.

• The student did notice the teacher's corrective feedback but either misconstrued it or failed to make sense of it.

• The narrower view misconstrued the case's cultural conflicts as racial or ethnic and offered no resolution.

• The states that issue the license plate forbid taboo words, or anything anyone might misconstrue as such.

• The role of the ecological concept of information, especially in its specificational sense is also misconstrued.

• Written by current practitioners of social science, discipline history willfully misconstrued the past in the service of current disciplinary trends.

• But ethics experts are not well fitted to do this, and to ask them to do it is to misconstrue their role.