0 past simple and past participle of misconstrue
1 to form a false understanding of the meaning or intention of something that someone does or says:
It is also noted how measures introduced for one purpose may subsequently be misconstrued or diverted for a completely different purpose.
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 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.
However, this should not be misconstrued as an endorsement of this theory of constraint interaction.
Variation is often misconstrued to be nonadaptive because it insures that many individuals will be less than optimally suited to the environment.
This should not be misconstrued as proposing the usual division of the political and the religious.
