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How to use misunderstand in a sentence

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It isn't mean-spirited, and it doesn't misunderstand or fail to care about the reasons people love space opera in the first place.
This has serious policy implications, because, if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.
Or did so-called experts so completely misunderstand the aerodynamics of supersonic flight?
But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity.
He tended to mishear or misunderstand things people said to him, and to jump off one emotional cliff or another several times a day.
It is not unusual for him to misunderstand a question and give an answer bearing no relation to it.
Non-Americans, however, misunderstand the true source of our ignorance about them, which only furthers our mutual estrangement.
Salgado considers himself part of the anti-globalisation protest movement and believes that people misunderstand migrants.
You need to be subtle and sensitive in family situations and personal relationships, as people tend to get hurt easily and misunderstand you.
I said, distinctly separating every word, so that she couldn't misunderstand me.
And I'm presumptuous enough to assume that people might actually take the time to misunderstand me.
Some farmers misunderstand what they are supposed to do such as, trimming a hedge when the plan said to coppice it.
Authorities despise him, people misunderstand him and villains continuously plot to get rid of him.
I'm trying to show how maybe I tend to misunderstand things or misconstrue things or tend to foreground certain things.
In both cases, they miss the point and misunderstand the man's track record.
To regard this as a propaganda coup is to misunderstand the sociopathic threat that confronts us.
He seems, first of all, to misunderstand that dictionaries of the English language are descriptive, not prescriptive.
To misunderstand it is to misread the bold signs of what will be the great historical markers our time.
I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty.
He has certainly managed to get an awful lot of people to misunderstand him.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Are they not given to those who misunderstand Plato and who mistranslate Aristotle?
I am sure our own people will not misunderstand, nor will the world misconstrue.
She would not only misunderstand, but she would misstate with premeditation and malice.
I feared that you might misunderstand the motives which have dictated my conduct.
Thus religion acquires a meaning and a reasonableness that the most intransigent rationalist cannot misunderstand.
This was to misunderstand and misapply the principle of morality.
But he in his egregious vanity must of cours e misunderstand.
Also, do not misunderstand the fact that I have taken this room, my dearest.
How we do misquote sayings, or misunderstand them when quoted rightly!
But of course I misunderstand people if they won't explain themselves.
Cadge thinks me still betrothed to John, so she affected to misunderstand.
I'd like to go, don't misunderstand me, but I can't go at this time.
You would misunderstand her thoughts during these wretched days, if you imagined that they were influenced either by religious fears or religious hopes.
There wasn't any way to misunderstand the language of that challenge.
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