"One summer my daughter learned how to read the word misunderstanding".
He had understood, even as he used the word "misunderstanding" — always mealy on the tongue, always prelude to an alibi — that there'd been no misunderstanding.
He had understood, even as he used the word "misunderstanding"—always mealy on the tongue, always prelude to an alibi that there'd been no misunderstanding.
EnlGain = Enlightenment gain, 146 words likely to reflect a gain in enlightenment through thought, education, etc. EnlLoss = Enlightenment loss, 27 words reflecting misunderstanding, being misguided, or oversimplified.
This could include ambiguity in the wording and misunderstanding of legal terms, and in some cases wills have not been witnessed.
Having looked into the matter, he has agreed to refund you the £25 extra collection fee you paid when you arrived in Amsterdam because of, in his words, "a misunderstanding".
Shape, of course, issued a statement disputing Brooke's interpretation of events, using words like "misunderstanding," "doesn't represent, "absolutely untrue".
"I apologise if my words generated misunderstandings or arguments, or if they offended the sensibilities of some people," he said.
Butterfly"; in The Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Houlihan described it as a "complex roundelay of words and misunderstandings" that "evolves into a one-joke comedy milked to the last drop".
Using a word incorrectly spreads misunderstanding.
This word means "confused misunderstanding or disagreement," not controversy or scandal.
