Noun : to put a misconstruction upon an action. From Dictionary.com.
The term misconstruction was used by the Congress of 1791 ... as misconstruction is verifiable truth ... the historical proof. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Barton apologizes for 'misconstruction' of BP apology. From Wordnik.com. [Boehner, Cantor and Pence say Barton was wrong] Reference
I can bear thy misconstruction without resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
“I have had misconstruction enough among you,” said. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
It fell to pieces, at last, of inherent misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
And my frantic pursuit of her was open to equal misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
I can afford to have some little misconstruction put upon my motives. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
In other cases, they were misconstruction that may well have been innocent. From Wordnik.com. [An End to Evil] Reference
DOBBS: And it would not be the only, if you will, misconstruction of the truth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2003] Reference
Particularly is this so in his strange misconstruction of the character of Scrooge. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
How many things that are innocent in themselves, are made injurious yet by misconstruction?. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The young man should not see such mad misconstruction — Come, here we are at the Chateau. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
How will every look, every action, even the most innocent, be liable to misconstruction! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
That is my duty as a Senator, and I fear no misconstruction at home on this subject or any other. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
In quite recent times people in England began to recognize this misconstruction of facts as such. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Another kind is, perverting a man's words or actions disadvantageously by affected misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Not the part of hypercriticism and misconstruction of Northern 'Orders,' and affectionate blindness to. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
With satisfaction I note that the attempts at such misconstruction have been almost unanimously rejected in. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
To prevent the possibility of misconstruction, we quote the words attributed to the late Foreign Secretary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
It was new to Laski to endure tamely the misconstruction of his motives, or the least impeachment of his veracity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Rep. BARTON: If anything I've said this morning has been misconstrued, I want to apologize for that misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [Hayward 'Deeply Sorry', Rep. Barton Also Apologizes] Reference
Landor only claimed to write as the best of others do, and in his own name protests to Southey against misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Society is now so much more generally refined that there is far less danger of such misconstruction, and far less need for. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Executive and his advisers could not, then or since, be repeated; and this of necessity gave room for misconstruction, as will appear. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
His brother read in his face terror at the light that was breaking in on him, dismay and pain at the misconstruction put upon his conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
'Accident, my dearest Mother – deluding appearances, and false internal reasoning on my part, – and on his, continual misconstruction!. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
To allow such a misconstruction to pass unchallenged through the world seems to me (and doubtless to many thousands besides me) unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Experience showed, he reminded the secretary, "that we cannot get enforcement of policies that permit of any possibility of misconstruction.". From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
"The misconstruction put on his phrase 'the irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery' has, I think, damaged him a good deal," wrote. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
The first count in the indictment, namely, that Howard had attempted to pocket the miniature, was discussed and dismissed as a misconstruction of motive. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
Executive power in the same hands, there is, I apprehend, not much less from a misconstruction of that instrument as it regards the powers actually given. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Subject to misconstruction, to jealousy, to petty annoyances -- and later, to the most pinching straits of poverty -- they were ever uncomplaining and ever ready. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
In the Constitution of the United States, whatever else may be obscure, the clause granting power to Congress over the Federal District may well defy misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
Of course, Mr. Philbrick knew perfectly well to what misconstruction he exposed himself when he told the public that there was profit to be made on the old plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
So the idea, for example, that we have to now be careful about every single laboratory in the world, you know, offering up terrible weapons is kind of a misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2001] Reference
Some of the former are unquestionably to be found in the defects of the Constitution; others, in my judgment, are attributable to a misconstruction of some of its provisions. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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