Those who have misconstrued the meaning of his famous expression, "All men are created equal" have been met with the adequate reply, "No intelligent man has evermisconstrued it except intentionally.
It is due to the memory of those men and those times that their acts should no longer be misconstrued to cover a doctrine synonymous with disorganization and civil war.
For this reason I append a summary statement as to the facts which are misconstrued by any statement which makes the existence of the world problematic.
In reply, next morning she sent by the gardener a long letter full of mild reproach, in which she asserted that she had no thought of love for anyone beside myself, and that I had entirely misconstrued her relations with Mr Beck.
He misconstrued her words wilfully, because he did not wish her to have a copy of the letter at her hand,--to remind her of the circumstances that had caused her to write it.
Hence the mythologists under the character of Meestra have represented an Egyptian priestess, who could assume many departments, which were misconstrued different shapes.
These Hippai, misconstrued mares, were priestesses of the Goddess Hippa, who was of old worshipped in Thessaly, and Thrace, and in many different regions.
Her enemies would take good care that she was consigned to an asylum, and that her actions were misconstrued into those of a person insane.
If there was an ingenious conspiracy to confine her in an asylum, then surely it would be an easy matter for the very fact of her flight to be misconstrued into insanity.
Oh, Edgington misconstruedentirely what I said," he answered.
But let me tell the World, If he out-liue the enuie of this day, England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse, Hot.
It may be that the Mexican Government and people have misconstrued or misunderstood our forbearance and our objects in desiring to conclude an amicable adjustment of the existing differences between the two countries.
The purest acts are misconstrued By the lascivious and lewd, And envy loves to lie in wait With fangs imbrued in venomed hate.
One inadvertent hour, some chance remark Was misconstrued with application dark; For little is required as an excuse When private ends are furthered by abuse; Suspicion's tunes are played with greatest ease, When jealousy manipulates the keys.
I ask your forgiveness, if I have misconstrued you in anything; but the times are perilous, and a man's life may depend on the society in which he travels.
Our passive resistance to the numerous native attempts at surprise had been misconstrued by the Baris into timidity.
And that his motives may not be misconstruedhe has come to report the peculiar phases of the business he found it actually necessary to turn his hand to.
In truth, the solemnity of this court, to those unacquainted with the tenor of legal proceedings at the south, might have been misconstrued for something more in keeping with justice.
This proffer of resignation was met by an assurance that I had misconstrued both the acts and intentions of the Administration, and the expression of a hope that I would not think of abandoning Brazil for which I had done so much.
When it was imperative to dissolve the Parliament, he foresaw that his not doing so in person would be misconstrued by his enemies, and that he would be branded by them with that most galling of all accusations to a noble heart--cowardice.
But the police inconsiderately suppressed the spectacle, merely because it blocked the traffic at a difficult point, endangered human life, and was misconstrued into an advertisement.
As I purchased it at once, with a gratified expression of countenance, it soon became evident that the act was misconstrued by my poor friend, who from that moment never ceased to haunt me.
And well I knew these activities of his lordship's were being basely misconstrued by the gossips.
For myself I suspected that she had merelymisconstrued the seeming cordiality of his lordship toward the woman and, at the expense of the Belknap-Jacksons, had sought the honour of entertaining him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misconstrued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: distorted; garbled; misread; mistaken; misunderstood; perverted
