misread
verb (used with or without object)
to read wrongly.
had been misreading
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past perfect progressiveof misread.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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But it turns out a majority of justices used the case to announce two dozen previous decisions were wrong and the court had been misreading Mississippi’s criminal code since 1975.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2016
