Take the wrong way

Usage examples of misinterpret.

Here evidently the child, true to the law of apperception, had interpreted, or rather misinterpreted, the words of the teacher, by means of the only ideas in his possession which seemed to fit the uttered sounds.

In the fiasco at Chancellorsville the son of a bitch had blatantly misinterpreted the obvious at every turn.

God hangs the righteousness of the moral system embracing all souls everywhere, and to misconceive or misinterpret God, sins against the highest interests of the world, since life never rises higher than the divinity it conceives and worships.

She said nothing when the fire leapt to life, certain Byron had misinterpreted her gesture, mistaking her for being cold.

I was sure my invitation might have been misinterpreted and that you thought me a horrible rake intent on whisking you into the darkness for a wickedly passionate kiss.

Not that Arion had discounted it, but when a mate never materialized, he assumed Morven must have misinterpreted her vision.

Venerable Orsola Benincasa, whose sixteenth-century childhood was visited by innumerable misinterpreted ecstasies, she might have been bruised black-and-blue, pricked with needles, and burned with exposed flames to rouse her.

Boethius, Cassiodorus Pater and Filius, myself and other marshals, nobles and officials of every degree were continually being accused by Theodoric of having misheard his orders, misread his decrees or misinterpreted his intentions.

The whole of this, lighted up with consciousness at last, may be the real meaning of the burden of the spirit given to the apostle Paul, but misinterpreted by him into the mechanico scenic scheme of the Judaized Christian Church.

World Soul and Eco-Noetic Self is misinterpreted in terms of a flatland holism that, in leveling qualitative distinctions, paralyzes actions that would further the descent of that World Soul.

Perhaps, even worse, there have been men who have been misinterpreted, traduced, forsaken, because they have been compelled for a reason sacredly secret to take a certain course which seemed disreputable, and the word which would have explained everything they have loyally sworn, for the sake of a friend, never to speak, and it has remained unspoken for ever.

She said nothing when the fire leapt to life, certain Byron had misinterpreted her gesture, mistaking her for being cold.

It was absurd to think the privacy code could have been misinterpreted as an abort command.

It was a silly reaction, when his words held no inflection whatsoever, but she had the feeling he was misinterpreting things she said.

If I said anything, he always acted as if I were a child, misinterpreting what happened.