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Princeton's WordNet

  1. misconstrual, misconstructionnoun

    a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)

  2. misconstructionnoun

    an ungrammatical constituent

Wiktionary

  1. misconstructionnoun

    a misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from the use of the wrong meaning of a word that has multiple meanings

  2. misconstructionnoun

    an ungrammatical phrase

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Misconstructionnoun

    Wrong interpretation of words or things.

    Etymology: mis and construction.

    It pleas’d the king his master very lately
    To strike at me upon his misconstruction,
    When he conjunct, and flatt’ring his displeasure,
    Tript me behind. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Others conceive the literal acceptation to be a misconstruction of the symbolical expression. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Err.

    Those words were very weakly inserted where they are so liable to misconstruction. Edward Stillingfleet.

ChatGPT

  1. misconstruction

    Misconstruction refers to interpreting something inaccurately, incorrectly or unjustly, often leading to confusion or misunderstanding. It can also refer to distortion, misrepresentation, or error in building or forming something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Misconstructionnoun

    erroneous construction; wrong interpretation

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of misconstruction in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of misconstruction in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of misconstruction in a Sentence

  1. Madame Guizot:

    Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.


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