Deliberate misinterpretation of a subject; Useful tool for political speech writers to misrepresent facts; Choice to misunderstand or to created misinformation for personal motives; Creating a "strawman" in an argument to alter the truth; Misread on purpose; Take in the wrong sense deliberately.
Commonly confused with "misconstrue" which does not imply deliberate misunderstanding.
"The senator's speechwriters chose to misconscrew his opponent's words to make them appear to mean something they clearly did not."
"She misconscrewed his meaning to create a strawman to attack rather than confront his true meaning directly"
"Although he knew exactly what she meant, he misconcrewed her meaning to avoid discussing her feelings, instead focusing on something completely unrelated"
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Messed up
Not a real word but is used by women on basketball wives, they think they are smart for saying it too.
Jackie: y'all got this totally misconscrewed
Draya(thinking) man, that girl got some good vocab!
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to mess around and scramble up someone elses words
how a rumor gets twisted around
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when a party or parties misconstrues the meaning of your statement causing detriment either unwittingly or maliciously
That jerk in the meeting misconscrewed me again. Vengeance will be mine!
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When someone mistakenly comes to a conclusion but it's TOTALLY messed up.
Dude! Jack was at the conference but he misconscrewed what the speaker was saying. He will always misconscrew things.
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the fiddling of someone elses words
like how a rumor gets all twisted around
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