Above all, being honest is the best way to avoid misunderstanding or resentment.

He is sending this in order to avoid misunderstanding.

To avoid misunderstanding, it will not be amiss to say a few words about the temporal peculiarities of these dream processes.

We ought to be, both for our own self-understanding, and also to avoid misunderstanding and the often consequential conflict in the public arena.

In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can.

The name telephone set is perhaps to be preferred to the word telephone, since it tends to avoid misunderstanding as to exactly what is meant.