Construes

Word CONSTRUES
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kənˈstɹuːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Construes"

What do we mean by construes?

To interpret or explain the meaning of something.

(grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.

(grammar) To admit of grammatical analysis.

To translate.

To infer.

To try and make sense of something Urban Dictionary

To make up or explain an action Urban Dictionary

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The word "construes" in example sentences

If a teacher trainer construes the relationship in any other way, will the teacher trainee be able to shrug off their socicultural shackles? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Second Circuit construes “use as a mark” here to mean “the use of [a] term as a symbol to attract public attention.” ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

No matter how much the public construes it otherwise (abetted, admittedly, by the exhibition's own wall labels), the Eggleston retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum (through January 16) documents not the contemporary American south but contemporary approaches to framing and recording perception and to analyzing - perhaps neutralizing, perhaps enhancing - the conditions of modern life. ❋ Peter Frank (2011)

Not to worry, the Government says: The Executive Branch construes §48 to reach only “extreme” cruelty, and it “neither has brought nor will bring a prosecution for anything less,” The Government hits this theme hard, invoking its prosecutorial discretion several times. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You happen to be a Liberal or Loose Constructionist: One who construes the Constitution to supposedly give the Federal governmental apparati vast and sweeping powers, far above and beyond those of the states, and above and beyond what it was really given in the Constitution by the Founders. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Justice Scalia says he construes constitutional provisions according to their original meaning. ❋ Jess Bravin (2011)

The error both in the Wilsonian view (at least as Mead and/or Kling construes it, perhaps that is the Wilsonian view, but perhaps I am a "Neo-Wilsonian"), and its critique, is misunderstanding that power and sovereignty is divisible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To argue that “activist government” is responsible for the abuse of civil rights (by institutionalizing it) is a gross misrepresentation of history which misplaces the cause of the Jim Crow laws, and erroneously construes the relationship between a representative government and its constituents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That said, there are many occasions for side-splitting laughter in medicine, but one has to be careful that the patient never construes this as our being light-hearted about his or her suffering. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However Palin construes her "message," Palin's detractors, of course, actually do take issue with her willingness to say things such as that. ❋ Stephen Stromberg (2011)

Then there are the false biographies that get suggested for your life when a Google stalk yields plausible namesakes, and the searcher construes a nonexistent affinity, or draws a plausible but wrong conclusion... ❋ Ph.D. Pamela Haag (2011)

I would like to believe that this outcome is what President Obama intended all along, that through nod and wink he passed down the word that “imminent danger” was to be interpreted as loosely as Justice Ginsburg construes the Constitution. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A big talent with a big voice like Broadway veteran Christine Ebersole demands big ideas to work with, and this time out she's tackling the largest topic imaginable: the end of days, inspired not by the Mayan calendar, but by the current political and cultural upheavals around the world, which she construes as evidence that humanity's days are numbered. ❋ Will Friedwald (2012)

She [tried] to construe a [reason] [for why] he loved her. ❋ Guuuuuuuu (2014)

[Being gay] is [just not] construable. ❋ Rakim Shabazz (2003)

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