Noun
Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHow a good meaning May be corrupted by a misconstruction. Thomas Middleton
It then occurs to me that the term “insanity or more precisely mental illness ” believed by many to only apply to those in mental and psychiatric homes, walking the street naked or the clinically depressed, correspond to a misconstruction of the fact. Source: Internet
This defence is "premised on a misconstruction", said Justice Ang. Source: Internet