misconstruction

misconstruction
Synonyms and related words:
aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, antiphrasis, barbarism, catachresis, coloring, confabulation, contorting, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, exaggeration, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, infelicity, injudiciousness, malapropism, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscoloring, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, missaying, misstatement, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, peccancy, perjury, perversion, poor judgment, prevarication, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, solecism, squeezing, straining, torturing, twisting, ungrammaticism, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness

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  • Misconstruction — Mis con*struc tion, n. Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • misconstruction — index catachresis, distortion, fallacy, falsification, misapplication, misjudgment, misrepresentation Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • misconstruction — ► NOUN ▪ the action of misconstruing something …   English terms dictionary

  • misconstruction — noun (C, U) formal an incorrect or mistaken understanding of something: open to misconstruction (=easy to misunderstand): A law must be worded so carefully that it is not open to misconstruction …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • misconstruction — /mis keuhn struk sheuhn/, n. 1. wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action. 2. an act or instance of misconstruing. [1505 15; MIS 1 + CONSTRUCTION] * * * …   Universalium

  • misconstruction — mis|con|struc|tion [ˌmıskənˈstrʌkʃən] n [U and C] formal an incorrect or mistaken understanding of something ▪ Your ideas are open to misconstruction …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • misconstruction — noun a) a misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from the use of the wrong meaning of a word that has multiple meanings b) an ungrammatical phrase Syn: misconstrual …   Wiktionary

  • misconstruction — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distortion, misunderstanding, fallacy; see error 1 , mistake 2 …   English dictionary for students

  • misconstruction — n. mistaken interpretation or understanding …   English contemporary dictionary

  • misconstruction — n misinterpretation, misunderstanding, misreading, misconception, miscalculation, misjudgment; warped or mistaken notion, wrong idea, false belief or impression, fallacy, delusion, distortion, coloring of the facts …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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