0 the act of forming a wrong understanding of something that is said or done, or an example of a wrong understanding: --
This is a deliberate misinterpretation of events.
The statement is unclear and open to misinterpretation (= could easily be misinterpreted).
Of course, none of these individuals bears any responsibility for inaccuracies or misinterpretations that might appear in the text.
Trying to integrate data from disparate fields inevitably leads to misinterpretation of some information.
A short review cannot arrest all the small errors and misinterpretations.
Two misinterpretations of the term "existential" must be ruled out from the very beginning.
Developmental differences in the ability to inhibit the initial misinterpretation of garden path sentences.
He makes, however, one serious misinterpretation, which seems to have had consequences for his editorial decisions.
With each repetition, the misinterpretation, or better said, misrepresentation, became more and more elaborate and moved further and further from the mark.
In other words a classical example of misinterpretation based on mutual distrust that just escalated.
