A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
Used in a Sentence
misconstruction
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for misconstruction.
Editorial note
It's just lazy and a total misconstruction of what MVP means.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of misconstruction gathered in one view.
Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for misconstruction.
noun
A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
noun
Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
noun
Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.
noun
(grammar, linguistics) An ungrammatical phrase; a misformed word.
Example sentences
It's just lazy and a total misconstruction of what MVP means.
I think the biggest misconstruction is that the counterculture is a single shared idea or that it is freely accessible to the masses.
While technically this is rooted in the technological misconstruction of a missing separation of data and instructions.
That's just a willful misconstruction - they're absolutely contributing to upstream, as the post makes clear.
This person and the people killed at Charlie Hebdo were not fascist, so what your doing here is political misconstruction of my words.
No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.
Does that seem like a misconstruction of the part of the argument that we originally started this string of comments on?
I think that one of the points in TFA is that the misconstruction doesn't need to reasonable to kill someone's career.
That would be a complete misconstruction of the opposing POV.
However, I acknowledge that assessing cognitive ability is a sensitive topic, ripe with misconstruction.
It would take almost deliberate misconstruction to cause a short.
What I am sensing is a misconstruction of the purpose of git.
Quote examples
Farm Subsidies are largely a myth and a misconstruction of "externalities" as subsidies.
The problem with the general assertion, "don't roll your own crypto", is the potential for implicit-misconstruction-by-contrast of professionally rolled cryptography being a pluggable, install-and-forget black box solution.
If it's on the line of "signals only exist because we have time", then yeah, duh; and it's such an outrageous misconstruction of my comment that I imagine you meant something else.
I am a bit sensitive when articles like this even refer to "the left" or "the right" because I'm so conditioned to think it's another misconstruction intended to create blame and hate instead of awareness and healing/resolution.
Proper noun examples
Moses, Statutory Misconstruction: How the Supreme Court Created a FederalArbitrationLaw Never Enacted by Congress, 34 FLA.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use misconstruction in a sentence?
It's just lazy and a total misconstruction of what MVP means.
What does misconstruction mean?
A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
What part of speech is misconstruction?
misconstruction is commonly used as noun.