Misconstruction

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  • noun. An inaccurate explanation, interpretation, or report; a misunderstanding.
  • noun. A faulty construction, especially of a sentence or clause.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of misconstruing; wrong interpretation; a mistaking of the true meaning.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from the use of the wrong meaning of a word that has multiple meanings
  • noun. an ungrammatical phrase
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
  • noun. an ungrammatical constituent
    • Word Usage
    "The term misconstruction was used by the Congress of 1791 ... as misconstruction is verifiable truth ... the historical proof."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    constituent  grammatical constituent  misinterpretation  mistaking  misunderstanding  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    calumny  creature  died  estrangement  evasion  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aberrancy  aberration  abuse of terms  antiphrasis  barbarism  
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