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misinterpret - use in sentences

Object

  • situation: Actually this is quite common for people to misinterpret a situation because there are many ambiguous words in the English language.
  • effect: Recent friday night and get a results and misinterpreted effects.
  • text: To misunderstand the genre is to misinterpret the text.
  • evidence: Additionally, the Department are getting feedback from the Appeals Service where the decision maker has misused or misinterpreted the evidence.
  • word: They could argue that the plaintiff was misinterpreting the words in question.

Subject

  • people: No doubt this positive move will be misinterpreted by some people -- one possible candidate being Peter Cuthbertson.

Preposition: as

  • lack: Sending messages with a read receipt can often be misinterpreted as a lack of trust in the recipient.
  • attack: The rising moon was misinterpreted as a missile attack during the early days of long-range radar.
  • sign: This could now well be misinterpreted as a first sign of pre-eclampsia.

Modifying Another Word

  • grossly: The remarks I made on News 24 about this were grossly misinterpreted.
  • deliberately: Badawi is guilty of deliberately misinterpreting the meaning of Jesus ' words in order to avoid the obvious.
  • easily: Third, given English usage of the word God, the simple affirmation " Jesus is God " may be easily misinterpreted.
  • frequently: Visually disabled people without communication skills frequently misinterpret their world.
  • completely: It's not his fault it was completely misinterpreted.
  • often: However, the effects of patent law are often misinterpreted.

Used with why or when

  • what: In the atmosphere of secrecy created by the Patriot Act, my sources misinterpreted what the FBI was doing.
  • when: Health when they countries that ultimately misinterpreted when found.

Infinitive complement

  • mean: That was misinterpreted to mean something else, but nobody took It seriously, although we had a lot of trouble with it.

Preposition: by

  • people: No doubt this positive move will be misinterpreted by some people -- one possible candidate being Peter Cuthbertson.

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