Interpret inaccurately

Usage examples of misread.

She had never worn snow-shoes before, but they were reasonably self-explanatory, and after walking out of them a few times from misreading how the straps went, and then falling down a few times by misguessing how to walk in them, she grew adept.

At the hospital, his X ray had been misread and the three of us were sent home with reassurances, but Reamy and I knew so profoundly that something was wrong with our listless whispering child that we returned.

Out of that agony, misread for those Imprisoned Powers warring unappeased, The ghost of his black adversary rose, To smother light, shut heaven, show earth diseased.

The Steadholder had put up with more than enough from this bigmouthed fool, and LaFollet felt himself silently urging Styles to misread her tone and manner.

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.

All they possessed, through a misreading of Kuhn, was a pseudo-attempt to trump normal science and replace it with their ideologically favorite reading of the Kosmos.

But the senior centurion revealed nothing, for the khagan had slightly misread his man.

There were alsounless he misread it totallyat least two cases of black lotos addiction among the students.

Evil One is, how he might even trick Nostradamus into misreading what the stars have foretold!

The lost Utopia of Hippodamus provided rewards for inventors, but unless Aristotle misunderstood him, and it is certainly the fate of all Utopias to be more or less misread, the inventions contemplated were political devices.

French misreading of his third Jim Bridger book,Massacre Moon , in which several of his mountain man characters, including several impossibly benevolent French beaver trappers, sided with the Blackfeet to help the tribe avoid a massacre by encroaching federal troops.

Under other circumstances, Ned would have checked the heading, but he had to concentrate on the autochthones— And the chance of Deke Warson getting lost because he misread a chart wasn't worth worrying about.

They knew how every last word could be twisted, stretched, decontextualised, recontextualised and wilfully misread, so they stuck tightly to a guaranteed foolproof script of opinions, policies and statements, and otherwise talked without saying anything.

And, unless Benito misread the signs, by th e vacant-space-to-let smile his brother wore these days, she hadn't waited for the marriage banns to share Marco's bed.

Live fire drills were a nuisance to set up, and the vessels releasing targets always risked a laser tech misreading them for a target in the heat of competition.