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(mis-con-strued) 3 syllables

Definition

verb. to understand something incorrectly or wrongly.

Example Sentence

Her statement was misconstrued.

More Example Sentences

Misconstrued words can lead to confusion.

Hear It! Say It! Write It!

misconstrued
Hear It! Say It! Write It!

Rhymes

  • booed
  • brewed
  • brood
  • chewed
  • clued
  • crewed
  • crude
  • cude
  • cued
  • dude
  • feud
  • food
  • glued
  • gude
  • hewed
  • hued
  • jude
  • lewd
  • mewed
  • mood
  • nude
  • plude
  • poohed
  • prude
  • queued
  • rhude
  • rood
  • roode
  • rude
  • ruud
  • screwed
  • shoed
  • shooed
  • shrewd
  • skewed
  • sood
  • spewed
  • stewed
  • stude
  • sued
  • trude
  • trued
  • ude
  • viewed
  • who'd
  • wooed
  • you'd

  • abboud
  • abood
  • aboud
  • accrued
  • allude
  • canoed
  • collude
  • conclude
  • construed
  • debuted
  • delude
  • denude
  • elude
  • endued
  • ensued
  • eschewed
  • exclude
  • extrude
  • exude
  • imbued
  • include
  • intrude
  • likud
  • mahmood
  • mahmoud
  • mahmud
  • maksoud
  • masood
  • masoud
  • nonfood
  • obtrude
  • preclude
  • protrude
  • pursued
  • renewed
  • reviewed
  • seclude
  • shampooed
  • subdued
  • tattooed
  • unglued

  • misconstrued
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