Sentence examples for badly construed from inspiring English sources

So badly construed is this law that some of it will surely never happen.

Can this seriously be construed as a feminist issue?

But anarchism, broadly construed, is becoming fashionable.

Was freedom, narrowly construed, enough?

But he was construed otherwise.

Elsewhere, perhaps, its steadiness might be construed as staidness, and the confidence of its moral pursuit as a trifle smug; yet, surrounded as it was by many films that veered towards self-importance, or whose visual allure was badly scarred by poor writing, Frears's work felt all the more welcome in its restraint.

Watch out!" – was construed a threat.

Would that be construed as cheating?

"Some have construed his silence as acquiescence.

Belichick construed Edwards's remark as belittling the Patriots' defense.

This behavior could definitely be construed as taunting.