Sentence examples for could be misunderstood from inspiring English sources

His robust humour could be misunderstood.

On Tuesday, Gyongyosi said he was sorry for making comments which "could be misunderstood".

That wasn't my intention exactly, but it could be misunderstood that way.

There was no way his message could be misunderstood and the colonels gave way.

However, the impression left of Tostan, the nongovernmental organization mentioned and quoted in the article, could be misunderstood.

The draft recounted his advice to an Enron official that a forthcoming Enron press release should not describe certain losses as "nonrecurring" because the term could be misunderstood.

appeared to show considerably more aggression and anger-management problems than patients with Alzheimer's did, and could therefore be misunderstood as psychiatric.

"Assume that you could always be misunderstood," he said, "so don't be afraid to ask for a three-line clarification, even a 'what if' scenario".

We hope that people will think before they post – and encourage everyone to use the preview button to give you that extra window of time to rewrite something that could potentially be misunderstood before posting.

Robin Butler, Thatcher's principal private secretary, anticipated her unease, telling her this "could easily be misunderstood as implying one-sided penitence and reconciliation on our side when it was the Argentines who were the aggressors and still not formally ceased hostilities".

A little slip of the tongue, or mention of Christian terms like "evil," which he used in his speech, could easily be misunderstood by some Islamic people as an attack on Islam.