verb
definition
To read wrongly, normally by accident; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
noun
definition
An incorrect reading
Examples of misreading in a Sentence
She tried hard to convince herself that she was misreading Wynn.
Josh strolled across the room and glanced down at her - misreading her expression, as usual.
He used to be able to read her every thought, but lately he seemed to do more misreading than anything else.
For cases between Romans, however, Gundobald compiled the Lex Romana Burgundionum, called sometimes, through a misreading of the MSS., the Liber Papiani or simply Papianus.
These remarks apply especially to that venerable rationalization which evolves the whole legend from a misreading of Undecimilla, the name of Ursula's companion, into undecim millia, i.e.
Even in copies of Jerome this is transformed into millibus; and it is perhaps not impossible that to this misreading we may indirectly owe the "thousands" in the Ursula legend.
The highest scientific authority of the day, Major James Rennell, believed, however, that the Niger ended, by evaporation, in the country of "Wangara" - a region located by him, through a misreading of Idrisi, far too much 1 Sir Rufane Donkin in a curious and learned work, A Dissertation on.
This criticism is based on a perverse misreading of the historian's observations on the age of Trajan, Hadrian and the Antonines.
But this is a misreading of both Roosevelt and history.
If you are misreading the signs, it could mean that this new relationship doesn't have a solid chance of being something good for the both of you.
There has also to be considered whether the text of the poetical passages has not often become corrupt, not only from ordinary causes but through the misunderstanding and misreading of north Arabian names on the part of late scribes and editors, the danger to Judah from north Arabia being (it is held) not less in pre-exilic times than the danger from Assyria and Babylonia, so that references to north Arabia are only to be expected.