What does misreading mean?
Definitions for misreading
mis·read·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
misreadingnoun
misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading
Wiktionary
misreadingnoun
an incorrect reading
Webster Dictionary
Misreading
of Misread
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of misreading in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of misreading in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of misreading in a Sentence
I can tell you, if they believe this President is going to yield on this particular issue, they're misreading him, misreading the American people.
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
Given such issues as North Korea, everyone probably understands the importance of this agreement. But this decision was made while linking it to Japan's review of export controls, i cannot help saying they are completely misreading the security environment.
But the idea that Stoics don’t have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe “proto-emotions” that we feel and can’t control, and even a sage isn’t impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.
I know they have 150 PhD economists over there who are probably smarter than I am, but they're misreading the situation, this, to me is, the worst possible thing they can do.
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