aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, antiphrasis, barbarism, catachresis, coloring, confabulation, contorting, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, exaggeration, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, infelicity, injudiciousness, malapropism, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscoloring, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, missaying, misstatement, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, peccancy, perjury, perversion, poor judgment, prevarication, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, solecism, squeezing, straining, torturing, twisting, ungrammaticism, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness

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misconstruction

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.

Misinterpretation

N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.

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