'Misconstruction' definitions:
Definition of 'misconstruction'
From: WordNet
noun
A kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) [syn: misconstrual, misconstruction]
noun
Definition of 'Misconstruction'
From: GCIDE
- Misconstruction \Mis`con*struc"tion\, n. Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misconstruction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse of terms,
- antiphrasis,
- barbarism,
- catachresis,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- contorting,
- corruption,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- error in judgment,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- infelicity,
- injudiciousness,
- malapropism,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misappreciation,
- misapprehension,
- miscalculation,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- miscomputation,
- misconception,
- misconjecture,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misestimation,
- misevaluation,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misstatement,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- misvaluation,
- peccancy,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- poor judgment,
- prevarication,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- skewed judgment,
- slanting,
- solecism,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- ungrammaticism,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrong construction,
- wrong impression,
- wrongness