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The phrase "be misunderstood for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea that something is mistaken for something else. For example, "His kind nature was often misunderstood for weakness."
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"And very importantly, we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time".More recently, financial analysts have grumbled about the company's wafer-thin margins and the hefty investment it is making in its Kindle range of e-readers, the most advanced of which, the Kindle Fire, is a fully fledged tablet computer.
The iPad is a device that may be misunderstood for a while.
But such opposition must not be misunderstood, for to say that there is no supernatural realm is not in itself to delineate the range of what is natural.
The term "mild pain" could not be used in Swedish since that easily could be misunderstood for something positive and therefore in the Swedish version we instead used the term "just a little pain".
A bad day could easily be misunderstood for rudeness.
"I don't want other teenagers to have to be misunderstood for their conditions like I've been," he says.
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But then, again, Spiderman was misunderstood for a time, too.
They are misunderstood for reasons of their own doing.
She also sounded frustrated, saying she had been misunderstood for much of her career.
We are missing the core of literature, the excitement, and it is being misunderstood for a lack of intelligence.
Today, however, Mr. Schundler asserted that, in effect, he had been misunderstood for months: he said he had been speaking only about legislation that would allow people with a "justifiable need" to carry a concealed weapon to obtain such permits -- such as "a woman who is receiving death threats".
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