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Example sentences for "misinterpret"

Lexicographically close words:
mishap; mishapen; mishaps; misinformation; misinformed; misinterpretation; misinterpretations; misinterpreted; misinterpreting; mision
  1. IV Words and books may be ambiguous memorials; but who can misinterpret the visible solidity of bronze and stone?

  2. You ought to know me better than to misinterpret a few foolish and hasty words, and appearances that had a meaning you should have understood.

  3. Whose written words If I should misinterpret or transgress!

  4. I couldn't speak of him without showing my feelings, and women always misinterpret that sort of thing.

  5. This world is full of cheap fellows who misinterpret actions.

  6. She realized that he might misinterpret her indignation, for he said: "I'm ashamed because I meddled in your affairs.

  7. I am--did I misinterpret your manner, Jacob?

  8. Impatient to be getting along, I misinterpret a gleam of illusory sunshine at noon on the third day of the rain-storm and pull out, taking a cursory glance at the Memorial Church as I go.

  9. I should not like you to misinterpret me," said Claire.

  10. Personally, I believe our Lord merely used the Messianic literature as a convenient framework for his spiritual Kingdom of heaven, and that the Gospels misinterpret his meaning on this point.

  11. It is my conviction that these people might have done more than misinterpret your honorable submission to the circumstances in which you were placed.

  12. In the second place, he was anxious that she should not misinterpret his motives.

  13. I don't think I misinterpret the state of Romayne's mind, and mislead you, when I express my belief that this second indiscreet interference of his wife between his friend and himself will produce the very result which she dreads.

  14. It was Stella's misfortune ignorantly to misinterpret everything that Penrose said or did, for the all-sufficient reason that he was a Catholic priest.

  15. Handle the little soul carelessly, harden rather than brace, misinterpret the broken expression, misunderstand the signs--and the sweet waters turn to bitterness.

  16. And it may be possible so to misinterpret the spirit of this book as to see in it only something unappreciative and therefore unkind.

  17. That it should ever have found advocates is interesting as showing how easy it is for unenlightened public opinion to misinterpret the word "useful.

  18. Supposing Bunyan's allegory of his Christian pilgrim had isolated parts of it published, separate from the whole, and we knew nothing about the rest, should we not be liable to misinterpret his real meaning?

  19. For example, a child that fears its parent's displeasure will be prone to misinterpret the parent's words and actions, colouring them according to its fears.

  20. For example, we may grossly misinterpret the intensity of a stimulus under certain circumstances.

  21. But lest some should misinterpret these remarks, I will add that there must be grace at heart.

  22. I hope only that you will never misinterpret that friendliness.

  23. You see, I want you to tell me what these are, and if I misinterpret them, I want you to correct me.

  24. It is important that we know what testing was done and that we don't misinterpret it ourselves.

  25. Couldn't Browning be indignant when the British matron presumed to misinterpret the artist's glow of enthusiasm!

  26. It was impossible to misinterpret her kind, simple, sisterly tones.

  27. Nor had he meant to dab at him with the oar, thereby encouraging the unfortunate old chap to duck and misinterpret his obvious intention to save him.

  28. Faint inner voices warned him at times not to misinterpret his exultant happiness in terms of infallibility and when they called to him he had his moments of humility and panic.

  29. The invalid chose to misinterpret his interval of constraint.

  30. The least I can do is not to misinterpret you, on my side.

  31. In the fear that he might misinterpret her reception of him, she made an effort to speak with some appearance of composure.

  32. A wicked step Ne'er will he take; but thou mightest easily, Yea, thou hast done it, misinterpret him.

  33. The reader must not, however, misinterpret the real meaning of the objection just made to corporation reform by means of commissions.

  34. He says: "In each of these nations there was a tendency to change the original conception of divine powers, to misunderstand the many names given to these powers, and to misinterpret the praises addressed to them.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misinterpret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.