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Spring Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

construe

Could you please check my sentences with the word "construe" in them?

Your remarks are construed as cruel, not because they are cruel but because they are cruelly honest.

Whatever you say in your defence, throwing rocks at anyone is construed as an act of animosity.

Having an active imagination used to be construed as a sin.

Choose your words cautiously or they may be construed as racist.

A low mark in every subject, despite her conscientious studying, may be construed by a stranger as indolence on her part.

Thank you

Hope
  

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Your usage of "construe" is OK, but you should check your sentences... [Y]

  • Your usage of "construe" is OK, but you should check your sentences...
  • [Y]
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Your usage of "construe" is OK, but you should check your sentences...

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SpringCould you please check my sentences with the word "construe" in them?

They all look fine to me, Spring!

MrP
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Your usage about construe is fine but I don't like it about meaning. When you tell the truth, it's very bored. It's not necessary for anyone. You should make it more impressive by some particular style of writing For example ,If I want to support someone, the one of the other side will be hurt.And vice versa..I don't know the man that I have met, because he didn't say any words. I call him mela

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