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How to use misconstrue in a sentence

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I'm trying to show how maybe I tend to misunderstand things or misconstrue things or tend to foreground certain things.
The media deliberately misconstrue things because they want to confuse people.
No doubt there will be members who will speak with forked tongue, and who will deliberately try to misconstrue that.
Yet, some misconstrue Emerson's dictum and believe that patenting an invention will cause the world to beat a path to their door.
I am really having trouble understanding how it is that members of this House could possibly misconstrue this bill.
I would also advise the House not to misconstrue the instrument of the convention as a deus ex machina of the European Union.
To make this mistake is to misconstrue the personal nature of power.
I cannot allow him to misconstrue the work of those committees in his words here.
He goes on to tendentiously misconstrue most everything Clark said.
We know how easily we misconstrue God's revelation in Jesus Christ, betraying it in our actions and posturing as owners of God's truth rather than as undeserving recipients of grace.
Solidarity and team superiors without fail and may not misconstrue them when spirit must prevail because all are responsible, within their doing so.
The government is trying to misconstrue the Canadian Alliance position as being against any type of firearm legislation when in fact we are very strong on strong legislation that will actually reduce crime.
The local community can misconstrue statements by well-intentioned visitors, consultants or other company-affiliated persons as commitments by the company.
Surely, an unreconstructed snob could misconstrue much more.
Ye see how ready men are to misconstrue and pervert the onefold meaning of the Lord.
Some observers may misconstrue that ineffectiveness or injudiciousness as a lack of support or, worse, as evidence of a concerted conspiracy against faculty or staff interests.
Just so I don't misconstrue anything, here's what Mr Barton said this morning:3 50pm: Steve Scalise, a Republican rep from Louisiana, keeps touting a sand barrier plan as if it will unquestionably save his state's shores.
So for Justice Sotomayor to argue that Michigan voters have unjustly stripped racial minorities of a right to press for affirmative action is to misconstrue the constitutional basis of these programmes.
And, no, rest assured, I didn't misconstrue her remarks.
I have tried to follow the debate as best I can and I am disappointed that there has been some fairly wilful attempt to misconstrue, or perhaps even mislead, in relation to previous electoral commitments.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No one should misconstrue this comparison, meant only to illustrate the constitutive nature of the experience of interfacing.
As for being straightforward, don't they misconstrue our words continually?
I acted on the impulse of affection, and I am sure you will not misconstrue my motives.
If they misconstrued Mary's motive, let us beware lest we misconstrue theirs.
Did I misconstrue your thoughts when you looked at me in the Queen's boudoir?
I am sure our own people will not misunderstand, nor will the world misconstrue.
Theirs was an anxiety I should have been blind to misconstrue.
She leant back while the more earnest members of the club began to misconstrue her.
And, lest he might misconstrue her remark, she avoided his eyes.
Still, when I reached my chamber, I felt a pang at the idea she should even temporarily misconstrue what she had seen.
Your jealous fancy causes you to misconstrue what you saw and heard.
But we must not misconstrue words in our versions of a style so loose.
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