Synonyms for misconstrued
mis·con·strued

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1. List of paraphrases for "misconstrued":

   misinterpreted, misunderstood

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1. Michael Strahan:

   That part was totally misconstrued, mishandled in every way, people who should have handled it better have all apologized, but a lot of the damage had already been done.

2. Chris Christie:

   I heard a candidate complain the other day that, you know, 'my positions' -- meaning that candidate's positions -- 'on comments I made about entitlement reform are being misconstrued by the press.' Well, it's much harder to be misconstrued by the press if you're specific, if you continue to speak in generalities, then you're going to have other people interpret what you mean.

3. Marie Brenner:

   You might respect them just because of what they have been able to accomplish and if you look at Putin, even though we don't agree with what he does, as far as his agenda, he's done a pretty good job of accomplishing it in Russia, but people on the left misconstrued that as Trump wanting to be like Putin.

4. Jennette McCurdy:

   Some [people] like drama and I think we butted heads at times but in a very sisterly way. She knows me so well and I know her so well that I think it was unfortunate that things kind of got misconstrued. there is certainly like a friend dynamic but then once you're around that person for—I mean, ‘Carly,’ ‘Sam Cat’—once we didn't have child labor laws we could work like 16 hours a day so you are around these people constantly and It's just natural that you're gonna have ups and downs.

5. John McCain:

   I do understand how many could have misconstrued my comments as insensitive, and for this I apologize, the intention of my comments were in no way directed at Sen. John McCain or John McCain family.