What is "construed"

Usage examples of "construed".

Refusal or avoidance of observation will be construed as sympathy with the ill intentions of the subject.

Neglect in this matter, when discovered, will be construed as sympathy with the ill intentions of the subject.

Absence from viewing lounge will be construed as sympathy with the ill intentions of the prisoner.

The next moment he glanced sidelong at Cray, realizing that the jest might have been construed as a criticism--or simply as a reminder that he was, in fact, a collection of programs--but she managed a smile, and for the first time met his eyes.

Here I have a shilling from the reign of Edward VI, which I obtained after an inebriated son of a Duke, who happened to have borrowed a shilling from me some time earlier, fell unconscious on a floor—the purse in which he carried his finest coins fell open and this rolled out of it—I construed this as repayment of the debt, and the exquisite condition of the coin as interest.

The violent compression of the air, which you and I might think of as a possible cure for deafness, is construed, by such people, entirely differently .

Another sound, faint and furtive, had reached Daniel’s ears from time to time, but that surly porter who bestrides the gate of the conscious mind, spurning most of what is brought in by the senses and admitting only perceptions of Import or Quality, had construed this as a mouse sapping and mining the wall, and shouldered it aside.

In the center was a battered and scratched plop of silver that with careful tilting and squinting and use of the imagination could be construed as a portrait of the first King James, who had died sixty-some odd years ago, but who was held to have managed the Mint competently.

All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

The father construed the former as a sacrifice to, the latter as a gift from, the Almighty.

Indeed, his appointment of Sir Thomas to run the Mint was construed by some as more evidence (as if more were wanted) tending to shew, that a certain Malady had got the better of the King’s Brain.

This was when we were still naïve enough to believe that Lothar construed payment of the bills as an opportunity.

The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

I will not say murdered for perhaps it may not be so construed in law, and I hope the best for his sake.

Honor had made it abundantly, one might almost say painfully, clear that she would not be amused by anything which might be remotely construed as a violation of the Eridani Edict's prohibitions, even by accident.