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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misinterpret.

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Examples

  • When one state misinterprets is own state sponsored terror as liberation a. k.a Iraq style it should hardly shock the senses over the impunity by which Bushco has grated the Israelis full permission to use the Lebanese people as mere obstacles whose lives are worth so little to anyone in Washington, Democrats included.

    Think Progress » Washington Times Encourages Israel to Attack Iran 2006

  • Kenneth Feinberg, the fund's special master, argues that the Cantor report "misinterprets" his rules and regulations and says he stands by his computations.

    'Arbitrary And Inappropriate' 2007

  • If that's not pathetic enough, she also repeatedly misinterprets the First Amendment in the same tweet as "reload" and insists that it protects all speech from everyone, even though this clause of the amendment only protects speech from the government laws abridging speech -- it doesn't protect Dr. Laura from her network, or Palin from her critics.

    Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin Fumbles and Flails Into an Otherwise Solemn Day Bob Cesca 2011

  • The judge misinterprets this as a question about whether the people in the US were aggrieved persons, when it is an essential question of fact that must be determined in order to prove the activity was illegal in the firstplace.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010

  • If that's not pathetic enough, she also repeatedly misinterprets the First Amendment in the same tweet as "reload" and insists that it protects all speech from everyone, even though this clause of the amendment only protects speech from the government laws abridging speech -- it doesn't protect Dr. Laura from her network, or Palin from her critics.

    Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin Fumbles and Flails Into an Otherwise Solemn Day Bob Cesca 2011

  • If that's not pathetic enough, she also repeatedly misinterprets the First Amendment in the same tweet as "reload" and insists that it protects all speech from everyone, even though this clause of the amendment only protects speech from the government laws abridging speech -- it doesn't protect Dr. Laura from her network, or Palin from her critics.

    Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin Fumbles and Flails Into an Otherwise Solemn Day Bob Cesca 2011

  • The judge does not understand that and therefore misinterprets the claim that the intercept was allowed by FISA as an unsubstantiated claim that a warrant was obtained.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010

  • She misinterprets basic facts (median sale price vs. median home value) and ignores important pieces of information & evidence (Case-Shiller, Fed program & tax credit ending soon), subsuming any shard of critical thinking to a shiny happy positive perspective.

    Seattle Home Prices Rising « PubliCola 2010

  • As a reminder of all the failed relationship comedies of last season, David Walton of NBC's short-lived Perfect Couples guests as a partygoer who misinterprets an ailing Alex's Marilyn Monroe get-up.

    Matt's Guide to Wednesday TV: Halloween Hilarity and Horror, South Park and More! 2011

  • To say that television is going to be replaced by online video -- or by anything else -- both misinterprets the facts and misunderstands the very definition of TV.

    Evan Shapiro: The Death of Television Evan Shapiro 2011

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