misconstrue

How To Use misconstrue In A Sentence

• I was interviewed by your paper last week and feel that some of what I have said was misconstrued in the article.
• The notion of legal matrimony as a blessed union of souls is as misconstrued as it is unnecessary.
• The media deliberately misconstrue things because they want to confuse people.
• It will be misconstrued as bribery, which is frowned on in legal circles.
• Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant: New Musical Express
• We've all heard of the term guru, and while it's gotten misconstrued and possibly watered down into a layman's term lately, the original meaning of guru was simple -- one who helped to remove darkness in order to reveal the light. Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher
• This didn't really go down so well because they repeated and misconstrued every word, and she rang me up and abused me.
• Prison Service Orders say staff should not wear unauthorised badges or pins, and whatever the reasons for wearing it, the badge concerned could be misconstrued.
• What I was attempting to say (albeit too concise – and more easily misconstrued) was that the woman pictured behind the picket was already being forced to hide herself by her own culture/religion. Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted – muslim | My[confined]Space
• He is, after all, a writer of such clarity that his work can only be misconstrued by an effort of will.