misconceive
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Regrettably, he and they misconceive the application of the U.S.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2023
People misconceive reality, according to his diagnosis, because they think about it without imagination or by rote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lastly, it is to misconceive the nature of the mind to make of it something passive and inert.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
"If I do not misconceive them greatly, they must be very unsuitable associates for a young lady educated in a French convent."
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
It is impossible to misconceive the common principle which animates them, the unity of their method.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
The two actors play a couple whose engagement is thrown into chaos by a single shocking secret in this misconceived rom-com from Kristoffer Borgli.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Some movies are toxically misconceived, and “The Drama” is among them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
While barristers for hotel owners Somani Hotels said it "firmly disputed" the council's claim, while the Home Office told the court that the authority's bid was "misconceived".
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
Those changes enabled the bandmates, friends since they were teens, to become even closer, despite any misconceived notion that they’ve been at odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
But Darwin, in all truth, had misconceived the notion, and pangene would always carry the memory of that misconception.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
For wine has many excellences, and one pre-eminent one, about which there is a difficulty in speaking to the many, from a fear of their misconceiving and misunderstanding what is said.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
Mr. Collier, ludicrously misconceiving the instinctive action of Imogen's mind, thinks the true reading is, "smothers her with painting."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
"If you would prefer an allegory of figures," says Dario, misconceiving her silence.
From A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett
It proved to be nothing but a reconnoissance, and showed that Hood was strangely misconceiving the situation.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
We have therefore insisted on the rational character of the idea of the good, but without misconceiving the part of sentiment.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
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