How to use misinterpret in a sentence

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• (figuratively, by extension) Of an order or cause of events, misunderstood or misinterpreted.From the entry back to front
• The latter group misinterprets ambiguous social stimuli, misblames others, and often responds with inappropriate anger-aggravated hostility.2013, Philip David Zelazo, The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 2. From the entry misblame
• You've intrigued me with the idea that certain parables are often misinterpreted and therefore mispreached.2012, Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Craig Brian Larson, Interpretation and Application, page 48. From the entry mispreach
• But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry bulletproof
• It is a known fact that Bolshevism has unmistakable characteristics of apocalyptic chiliasm, albeit misinterpreted in a physical, earthly way.2008, Detlef Garbe, Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich, page 49. From the entry chiliasm
• After all, informality could be misinterpreted, and as the Navy puts it, discovery in these cases is a "career ender."2005, Richard F. Miller, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War. From the entry dime dropper
• An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and…. From the entry off-coloured
• Other pharmacologically unrelated medications that happen to include the word part vir, such as virginiamycin and viridofulvin, may be misinterpreted as antivirals.2015 December 24, “Patient Safety in Medication Nomenclature: Orthographic and Semantic Properties of International Nonproprietary Names”…. From the entry viridofulvin
• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy.2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN…. From the entry David
• A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts…. From the entry DIY
• Inundated by too many of them, we tend to ignore them completely, to accept them blithely, to disbelieve them closemindedly, or simply to misinterpret their significance.2010, Wayne Weiten, Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Edition, →ISBN, page 444. From the entry closemindedly
• If more blacks are reported as abusive, this is then reflected in incidence data (of reported cases), and later can be misinterpreted as a "characteristic" of child abuse.1989, Howard Dubowitz, Eli Newberger, “Pediatrics and Child Abuse”, in Dante Cicchetti, Vicki Carlson, editors, Child Maltreatment: Theory…. From the entry Woozle effect
• The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not attend, as they had contemplated doing, for fear such action might be misinterpreted in Minnesota.1923 December 10, “Caucuses”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008. From the entry laborite

Meaning of misinterpret

1. verb To make an incorrect interpretation; to misunderstand.

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Questions about misinterpret in a sentence

How do you use misinterpret in a sentence?

Misinterpret is used as a verb. For example: “(figuratively, by extension) Of an order or cause of events, misunderstood or misinterpreted.”

What is a short sentence with misinterpret?

“An unkind critic might easily have misinterpreted that dim surface.”

What does misinterpret mean?

Misinterpret means to make an incorrect interpretation; to misunderstand.