Misunderstand

Examples

• You are desperate, full of fancies, and wilful; and you misunderstand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But, Sissy glanced at him with great attention; nor did she in her own breast misunderstand him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I cannot misunderstand you, but I entreat you, dear Lizzy, not to pain me by thinking _that person_ to blame, and saying your opinion of him is sunk. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Ah, but there you misunderstand me again,' said Fledgeby. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What if, for some one of the subtler reasons that would tell with both of them, they should tire of each other, misunderstand or irritate each other? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But he did not receive it with unqualified assent; on the contrary, he said, No, gentlemen, no; let them not misunderstand him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She felt sure that her husband's conduct would be misunderstood, and about Fred she was rational and unhopeful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You have misunderstood me, Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He misunderstood me, seized the trunk indicated, and was about to hoist it on the vehicle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You misunderstood it, mother. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He might be misunderstood--supposed to mean something, or to have done something, that had never entered into his imagination. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• To furnish these opportunities is to add to the resources of life, and only a doctrinaire adherence to a misunderstood ideal will raise any objection to them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But I am willing to hope the best, and that his character has been misunderstood. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Helena blushed at this, but, purposely misunderstanding the hint, made demure reply. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Every one heard, of course, that there had been some disagreement--some misunderstanding---- Did she hear that Bertha turned me off the yacht? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Major Murphy, to whom I owe most of my facts, assures me that he has never heard of any misunderstanding between the pair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I could not get on at all if there was a misunderstanding between you and me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, there must be no misunderstanding regarding what I buy for two hundred a year. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is to all our honours, that in all that time we never had among us the smallest misunderstanding. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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