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PRONUNCIATION OF MISCONSTRUING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISCONSTRUING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misconstruing is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb misconstruing in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISCONSTRUING

PRESENT

Present
I misconstrue
you misconstrue
he/she/it misconstrues
we misconstrue
you misconstrue
they misconstrue
Present continuous
I am misconstruing
you are misconstruing
he/she/it is misconstruing
we are misconstruing
you are misconstruing
they are misconstruing
Present perfect
I have misconstrued
you have misconstrued
he/she/it has misconstrued
we have misconstrued
you have misconstrued
they have misconstrued
Present perfect continuous
I have been misconstruing
you have been misconstruing
he/she/it has been misconstruing
we have been misconstruing
you have been misconstruing
they have been misconstruing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I misconstrued
you misconstrued
he/she/it misconstrued
we misconstrued
you misconstrued
they misconstrued
Past continuous
I was misconstruing
you were misconstruing
he/she/it was misconstruing
we were misconstruing
you were misconstruing
they were misconstruing
Past perfect
I had misconstrued
you had misconstrued
he/she/it had misconstrued
we had misconstrued
you had misconstrued
they had misconstrued
Past perfect continuous
I had been misconstruing
you had been misconstruing
he/she/it had been misconstruing
we had been misconstruing
you had been misconstruing
they had been misconstruing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will misconstrue
you will misconstrue
he/she/it will misconstrue
we will misconstrue
you will misconstrue
they will misconstrue
Future continuous
I will be misconstruing
you will be misconstruing
he/she/it will be misconstruing
we will be misconstruing
you will be misconstruing
they will be misconstruing
Future perfect
I will have misconstrued
you will have misconstrued
he/she/it will have misconstrued
we will have misconstrued
you will have misconstrued
they will have misconstrued
Future perfect continuous
I will have been misconstruing
you will have been misconstruing
he/she/it will have been misconstruing
we will have been misconstruing
you will have been misconstruing
they will have been misconstruing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would misconstruing
you would misconstruing
he/she/it would misconstruing
we would misconstruing
you would misconstruing
they would misconstruing
Conditional continuous
I would be misconstruing
you would be misconstruing
he/she/it would be misconstruing
we would be misconstruing
you would be misconstruing
they would be misconstruing
Conditional perfect
I would have misconstruing
you would have misconstruing
he/she/it would have misconstruing
we would have misconstruing
you would have misconstruing
they would have misconstruing
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been misconstruing
you would have been misconstruing
he/she/it would have been misconstruing
we would have been misconstruing
you would have been misconstruing
they would have been misconstruing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misconstrue
we let´s misconstrue
you misconstrue
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misconstrue
Past participle
misconstrued
Present Participle
misconstruing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISCONSTRUING

misconceit
misconceive
misconceived
misconceiver
misconception
misconduct
misconjecture
misconnect
misconnection
misconstruct
misconstruction
misconstrue
miscontent
miscontentment
miscook
miscopy
miscorrect
miscorrection
miscorrelation
miscounsel

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISCONSTRUING

accruing
arguing
cataloguing
construing
continuing
devaluing
discontinuing
embruing
ensuing
gluing
imbruing
intriguing
issuing
plaguing
pursuing
queuing
rescuing
suing
truing
valuing

Synonyms and antonyms of misconstruing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MISCONSTRUING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «misconstruing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of misconstruing

Translation of «misconstruing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISCONSTRUING

Find out the translation of misconstruing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of misconstruing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «misconstruing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

曲解
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

malinterpretando
570 millions of speakers

English

misconstruing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

misconstruing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

misconstruing
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

misconstruing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desconstruir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

misconstruing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méconnaissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Misconstruing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verkennung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

misconstruing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

misconstruing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misconstruing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiểu sai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

misconstruing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीचा अर्थ लावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çarpıtarak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

misconoscere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

błędnej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

misconstruing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nesocoti
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρερμηνεύοντας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afgesonder
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bortses
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misconstruing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misconstruing

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISCONSTRUING»

The term «misconstruing» is normally little used and occupies the 130.068 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISCONSTRUING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about misconstruing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISCONSTRUING»

Discover the use of misconstruing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misconstruing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and ...
DELIBERATE MISCONSTRUING OF A QUESTION OR COMMENT Most of the skewed answers noted above are occasioned by some psychological dislocation in the relationship between the speakers.27 Even in OK 71-72 Oidipous is not ...
Donald J. Mastronarde, 1979
2
Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes
"Misconstruing. Everything'. Julius. Caesar. and. Sejanus. IAN. DONALDSON. MANYPLAYS OF THE LATE ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY JACOBEAN PERIOD, AS Anne Barton has suggestively remarked, seem to be curiously linked one to ...
Grace Ioppolo, R. A. Foakes, 2000
3
Julius Caesar
Mossman, pp. 677–756. 106. See Ian Donaldson, '“Misconstruing everything”: Julius Caesar and Sejanus', in Grace Ioppolo, ed., Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honour of R . A . Foakes (Newark: university of Delaware Press, 2000), pp.
Harold Bloom, 2009
4
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
And so one risk in misconstruing all thought as cogitation which the patient can relate to, rather than live from, may be that of encouraging an unhealthy form of externalization or self-alienation. For some of our thoughts—in particular certain ...
KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, 2013
5
The Melchizedek Code-Principles
A. Of Misconstruing In specifically Exodus 19:23 (as traditionally translated), it appears, that “holiness” and the significance of this term does not apply as “ pleasantness”, and is not to be so cognate; but rather, it means something, more akin to ...
G. L. Robbins, 2008
6
A View to a Cure: Narrative Quest and Healing Transformation ...
“clenched terror,” thinking of his guests now as “strangers, silent and hunched and misconstruing” (74). Eborn's silence, his panic, and his image of “guests” as “ misconstruing” strangers recall his earlier moments of anxiety as witness and ...
Suzanne Shrell Bolt, 2007
7
The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies
0 In this context, the ambiguity of penile response is of monumentally critical significance: "If erection is not unique to sexual stimulation and also occurs during aggressive action, men should be prone to misconstruing their inclinations and ...
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 1994
8
Agent-centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to ...
The second aspect of the finality criterion is not met, then, if one's priorities do not properly recognize a good for the kind of good it is within one's deliberative field. This can occur in a variety of ways: by misconstruing the value of a good as not ...
George W. Harris, 1999
9
The Way to Eat: A Six-step Path to Lifelong Weight Control
Misconstruing. Fat. for. Calories. Another common pitfall is the tendency to think that low-fat foods are low-calorie foods. In general, reducing fat intake does lead to reduced calorie intake. But low-calorie foods ...
Maura Harrigan Gonzalez, 2002
10
Copyright's Paradox
Misconstruing. Expressive. Diversity. Propertarians argue that requiring speakers to create entirely new expression rather than borrowing from others will enhance expressive diversity. David McGowan raises that possibility with respect to ...
Neil Weinstock Netanel Professor of Law Univeristy of California at Los Angeles, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISCONSTRUING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misconstruing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jurors to decide if Aurora movie theater shooter gets death
He said that to "pretend that Mr. Holmes is not mentally ill is misconstruing the evidence." Recapping evidence, testimony, victims' stories and ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
2
Second Circuit Standard of Review on Suppression Motions Varies
The panel in Howard then, aside from misconstruing the holding in Casado, apparently overlooked the fact that a reading of Casado reflects ... «New York Law Journal, Jul 15»
3
Tony Norman: Trump's delusions will catch up to him
Mr. Trump would later describe being lauded with a standing ovation from that crowd of values voters and insist that only the misconstruing of ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
4
James Holmes guilty of murder in theater massacre
He said that to "pretend that Mr. Holmes is not mentally ill is misconstruing the evidence." Recapping evidence, testimony, victims' stories and ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
5
Oklahoma AG seeks review of Ten Commandments case
“Now, the court is bucking its own precedent and misconstruing a section of the state Constitution that permitted those displays to order the ... «Examiner Enterprise, Jul 15»
6
Jurors start deliberating in Colorado
He said that to “pretend that Mr. Holmes is not mentally ill is misconstruing the evidence”. Defense attorneys however argued that Holmes was ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
7
'Sane, Sane, Sane' Or Insane? Theater Shooting Jury Hears Closing …
“To stand here and pretend like Mr. Holmes is not mentally ill is misconstruing the evidence,” King said. "You cannot divorce the mental illness ... «Colorado Public Radio, Jul 15»
8
Behati Prinsloo Talks About Halloween With Adam Levine On …
Whatever the couple is sharing over Instagram or other social media podiums, but it is good to know that so far there is no clue of misconstruing ... «Movie News Guide, Jul 15»
9
Theater trial blog: Day 49, closing arguments
"So to stand here and pretend that the defendant is not mentally ill is misconstruing the evidence. And it's not fair to you, or to [the defendant].". «9NEWS.com, Jul 15»
10
Attorney general: Supreme Court should hear 10 Commandments …
Now, the court is bucking its own precedent and misconstruing a section of the state Constitution that permitted those displays to order the ... «KOKI FOX 23, Jul 15»

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