NOUN
- a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
How To Use misconstrual In A Sentence
- Is this yet another convenient misconstrual of something else Isaid? The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
- And this misconstrual is beyond foolish, for it is transparently clear what the counterexamples are for, and what thesis they are directed at. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
- Is this yet another convenient misconstrual of something else I said? The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
- You sidewise reference to Behe there perpetuates a misconstrual of his testimony in Dover, by the way. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
- The hominid fossil record isn’t even especially “jerky” when examined quantitatvely at fine-scale resolution, so the creationists don’t even have their usual incompetent misconstrual of punctuated equilibria which is actually about morphologically small gaps between closely-related sister species to rely upon. Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
- What the Nobel laureate seems to realize -- Vitter's misconstrual notwithstanding -- is that pricing oil at its actual cost is the fastest way for the next-generation technologies to flourish with something like, yes, free-market vigor. Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith
- I have no authorization from ShelbyC, nor am I the same person as he, I just jumped in because your uncharitable misconstrual was getting ridiculous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
- You sidewise reference to Behe there perpetuates a misconstrual of his testimony in Dover, by the way. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision