Misunderstood

Examples

• 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.
• I think it is quite misunderstood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And I purposely assumed, in referring to these events, to have misunderstood much of what Mr. Blake himself had told me a few hours since. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I should not have thought it possible, she began, that you could have misunderstood me! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Elizabeth felt that they had entirely misunderstood his character, but said nothing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Perhaps he had misunderstood Madame Olenska--perhaps she had not invited him after all. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He did not repeat his persuasion of their not marrying--and from _that_, I am inclined to hope, he might have been misunderstood before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Who are _misunderstood_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The design had been re-drawn; but many defects still remained, and several of the instructions given had been misunderstood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She spoke of one man in a strain not to be misunderstood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You misunderstood me this morning, did you not? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Because my conduct has been misrepresented, because my motives have been misunderstood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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