as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
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Bless his heart for completely misreading The Graduate.
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2025
As wires get crossed, intent is more likely to get misread.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
In a Los Angeles hotel room, Duffy is showing Reacher the surveillance video of Prado that turned out to be inadmissible because poor, dead Agent Eliot misread a map and shot the video from a place he wasn’t supposed to be.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Read: How Netanyahu misread his relationship with Trump Netanyahu was prime minister for 13 of the 14 years before October 7.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2025
As wires get crossed, intent is more likely to get misread.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
In a Los Angeles hotel room, Duffy is showing Reacher the surveillance video of Prado that turned out to be inadmissible because poor, dead Agent Eliot misread a map and shot the video from a place he wasn’t supposed to be.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
Read: How Netanyahu misread his relationship with Trump Netanyahu was prime minister for 13 of the 14 years before October 7.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Misread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misread. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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