misreads

Thus, she seizes on your email, "misreads" it and is saved a rejection.

Exclusivity Sux Miss Snark 2005

'misreads' on the belt, so they felt the number of readers on the belt system could be reduced.

The Cranky Flier 2010

This radically misreads the historic context and is as ignorant or dishonest a tactic as that used by proponents of Intelligent Design who mine Darwin's writings for useful quotes.

Astrology for science communicators 2011

Milton misreads Shakespeare, Blake misreads Milton, etc.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

And, since financial markets, while volatile, have been largely on an upswing since August, he added that "there's a risk that Washington misreads improvement in the stock market and bond market as an opportunity to continue fighting along polarized lines, when it's really not."

Investors' Dread-Letter Day: 11/23 Brendan Conway 2011

Suggesting otherwise -- that the tradition supports only one of these reactions -- misreads the tradition and makes it small.

Brad Hirschfield: Is It Really Jewish To Celebrate Osama Bin Laden's Death? Brad Hirschfield 2011

In what he apparently takes to be a telling criticism of Bloom's practice as a critic, Benjamin Balint remarks that "We might say that Harold Bloom is the Rashi of misreadings, a kind of contemporary sage who, due perhaps to the excesses of reading itself, himself misreads — sometimes forcefully, sometimes weakly."

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

What is remarkable to me (but, again, not surprising) is how Dr. Williams, an accomplished and erudite theologian, misreads Scripture, misunderstands the language of the body, and misses the meaning and nature of sexuality, all while earnestly seeking to "engage" and "question" and "discuss" and gaze upon "experience."

Cause and effect 2009

If so, I never heard of him until last week when I heard that ‘Benn Gleck’ misreads him (and everything else).

Think Progress » Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson goes after right-wing fear-mongering on marriage equality. 2010

Suggesting otherwise -- that the tradition supports only one of these reactions -- misreads the tradition and makes it small.

Brad Hirschfield: Is It Really Jewish To Celebrate Osama Bin Laden's Death? Brad Hirschfield 2011