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misconstrue

verb as in get a wrong or false impression

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It’s easy to misconstrue the ex-president’s comment in Ohio given his incoherence and history as well as the media’s biases.

Swain emphasized that he didn’t want any surfers to misconstrue the intensity of the storm.

Trump's claims against James are "trying to misconstrue" her attendance at public White House events "as secret meetings to engage in a conspiracy" against him, Reid began.

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates aren’t participating, the former because it doesn’t want to do anything the Houthis could misconstrue as an aggression.

“Unable to find any wrongdoing there, you’ve purposefully chosen to misconstrue benign transactions between family members that occurred when President Biden was neither in office nor a candidate for office in order to push a false political narrative to harm the President.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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