To carelessly misinterpret another person's words, ideas or intentions, often with a dismissive and disparaging mindset. When a person misconstrues, they rely on their gut feeling while paying no attention to the actual content and rationale. Though it can happen anywhere, such quick-to-react idiocy is almostexclusive to Twitter and Reddit.
See also: gaslighting
Me: *posts a genuine and sincere LifeProTip on how to clean junk on your phone* 0 upvotes
Redditard: Stop advertising your app dickhead, we know that shit doesn't work. 12 upvotes
Me: Oh look, typical Redditard misconstrued my post. Nowhere in my post did I even say that it was my app!!! -5 upvotes
verb; interpret (something, especially a person's words or actions) wrongly while glazing over facts and filling in unknown variables with half baked truths.
"You've got it all misconstrudeled. You areglazing over fact and filling peoples heads with bullshit"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)