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• n  a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
• n  an ungrammatical constituent

• Reader Kuebler is guilty of a careless misconstruction.
• Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction.
• PTI was trying to contrast Lilienthal, the true democrat, and Eisler, the Communist, but concedes that the result was open to misconstruction.

• misconstrual

• construction

News & Articles

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• Ben Easterlin: Georgia's forests can handle wood pellets
  Dean McCraw's column on March 19, related to tax breaks being provided to pellet mills as being a bad bet for the state, is inaccurate, as it is based on a misunderstanding of the industry and a misconstruction of data pertaining to the forest supply.
  March 21, 2014 - Savannah Morning News

Quotes

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• Joe Barton in msnbc.com
  I want the record to be absolutely clear that I think BP is responsible for this accident,he said. "If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued, in opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction."