Misread
Misread verb - To fail to understand the true or actual meaning of.
Usage example: I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
Nearby Word: misreading
See
See verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: I see your point
Both words in one sentence
- See I Thought It Meant for misinterpreted trope names, and I Read That As for misread page names.
- Chastity. These days often misread to only mean sexual abstinence (see Ethical Slut for some thoughts on the fallacies of regarding this as a virtue), this virtue is more accurately interpreted as synonymous with temperance and self-control.
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In her first and only appearance, Lucy Woo initially appears ecstatic to see her former partner again but then proceeds to yell at him for leaving her with Hamster Man for 20 years, all because he misread instructions she wrote on a photo she left behind for him to go save her.
Source: Kiss-Kiss-Slap
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