CONSTRUED

Definition: CONSTRUED

CONSTRUED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Construe

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CONSTRUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: CONSTRUED

Which could also be construed as the brain thing. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The fact is, what we're doing could be construed as -- forgive me sir -- collaboration with the enemy. (The Bridge on the River Kwai; writing credit: Pierre Boulle)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. (reference)

Amendment IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. (reference)

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

In so doing, the Court effectively overturned a 150-year old guideline for defamation cases and called for a more generous approach toward the defense of fair comment by ruling that honest remarks, even those made with malice, could still be construed as fair comments. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein. (references)

Saudi Arabia

There is no minimum age for workers employed in family-oriented businesses or in other areas that are construed as extensions of the household, such as farming, herding, and domestic service. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

串讲 (Construe, Construing). (various references)

French

se prendre et s'interpréter (to be taken and construed). (various references)

German

konstruierte (constructed, constructs). (various references)

Pig Latin

onstruedcay

Derivations

Words ending with "CONSTRUED": misconstrued. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CONSTRUED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conscrued, constr, constrew, constri, constru, construce, construendum, constued, consture, contrue, contrued, costrued. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: construe, contused, cornuted, counters, crunodes, eductors, recounts, roundest, tonsured, trounced, trounces, unsorted.

-2 letters: contuse, cornets, cornute, counted, counter, coursed, courted, couters, crudest, crunode, crusted, detours, docents, dourest, eductor, encrust, enduros, recount, redouts, resound, rodents, rousted, scorned, scoured, scouted, scouter, snorted, snouted, sounder, sourced, tenours, tonsure, trounce, undoers, undrest.

-3 letters: censor, centos, cerous, codens.

+1 letter: discounter, introduces, outscorned, rediscount, reductions, uncorseted, undercoats, unescorted.

+2 letters: conductress, constructed, cotransduce, counterbids, countersued, countryside, deconstruct, destruction, discounters, documenters, introducers, rediscounts, undercounts, undercrofts.

+3 letters: cotransduced, cotransduces, countermands, counterposed, counterraids, countrysides, deconstructs, destructions, misconstrued, overdiscount, rediscounted, reductionism, reductionist, reeducations, reintroduces, superconduct, underclothes, unobstructed.

+4 letters: coastguardmen, conductresses, counterorders, counterpoised, countersigned, counterstated, countertrades, countertrends, counterworlds, deconstructed, deconstructor, documentaries, documentarist, nonstructured, overdiscounts, overdocuments, preinductions, reconstituted, reconstructed, rectitudinous, rediscounting, reductionisms, reductionists, reproductions, semiconductor, subcontracted, superconducts, thunderclouds, unconsecrated, unconstrained, unconstricted, unconstructed, undercoatings.