Sentence examples for misconstrued to mean from inspiring English sources

If the warning is misconstrued to mean that deep and immediate spending cuts are needed — as Republicans have claimed — it will be counterproductive.

She later learned that her answer was misconstrued to mean she was not interested in any program, and her application was canceled.

Although technically correct, we were concerned that this statement might be misconstrued to mean that we are claiming that R58F10 is the only sensory neuron necessary for this behavior.

Unfortunately, the emo style is often misconstrued to somehow to mean glorifying mental illness.

To my dismay, one line in my fifth novel hurt his feelings; my father misconstrued it to mean that his daughter did not think him handsome.

Anti-vaccination activists misconstrued this to mean that the absence of a correlation between attack rate and vaccine coverage implies that influenza vaccine has no efficacy.

(Dr. Bachmann says the comment has been misconstrued to suggest he means gays are barbaric. "That's not my mind-set," he told The Star-Tribune).

"If I make eye contact with him, he might misconstrue that to mean that I want to talk to him," Boehner said.

The England coach, Trevor Bayliss, has long said he desires aggression from two of his three top-order batsmen, a word largely misconstrued by many to mean scoring quickly.

Dr. Hough argues that the novels misconstrue Revelation to mean that there are only two sides to every question, God's and the Devil's.

That was what was misconstrued to say I orchestrated violence.