Misconstrue

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 almost exclusive 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

by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian June 9, 2021

Misconstrusion

The act of misconstruing something, or not understanding something

Your reaction was a misconstrusion of my intent!

by JPAA January 16, 2011

Misconstrudel

To incorrectly interpret a strudel as another baked good or pastry, or vice versa.

Q: Hey man, where'd you get this delicious apple turnover?
A: Dude. Common misconstrudel right there... you have got to learn your pastries!

by devilashe June 9, 2014

Misconscrewed

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!

by notanninja99 November 29, 2011

misconscrewing

to mess around and scramble up someone elses words

how a rumor gets twisted around

by rod124356 August 29, 2005

Misconscrewed

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!

by rzaragoza December 19, 2008

Misconscrew

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"

by Siagiah Karlsson December 14, 2006