Misconstruction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MISCONSTRUCTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of misconstructing
• the action of misconstruing words or actions; misinterpretation
• Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
• a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
• an ungrammatical constituent
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• management information systems

How to use MISCONSTRUCTION in a sentence

• No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.
• Still less should I have chosen for such witnesses a couple who were plainly disposed to put the usual misconstruction upon the relations of any man with any woman.
• In the Constitution of the United States, whatever else may be obscure, the clause granting power to Congress over the Federal District may well defy misconstruction.
• Germanicus replied politely, but indefinitely, to the proposal of an interview, which he may have thought unnecessary, and open to misconstruction.
• Misconstruction, condemnation, and isolation are the penalties enforced upon the great leaders in the realm of advanced thought, by the bigoted people of their time.
• He recalled many past moments when he had felt that he had placed himself in a false position and might have laid himself open to misconstruction.
• It came into the church chiefly with converts who had believed it before their conversion, and continued to believe it by a misconstruction of the Scriptures.
• It was a further source of weakness to the Congregation that their actions easily lent themselves to misconstruction and misrepresentation.
• The chain of causation is so clear, one would think, as to be incapable of misconstruction.
• This article was therefore inserted to prevent such a misconstruction of the constitution.
• Thus, both sides furnish conclusive evidence that they go for the principle, and the principle only, and desire to take no advantage of any possible misconstruction.
• Society is now so much more generally refined that there is far less danger of such misconstruction, and far less need for a young girl to be always on her guard.