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
Really, Leo, if I had not seen you in the field I might misconceive you!
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
But you misconceive me: I return, at once, and my friend remains behind to answer for me.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ah, my dear friends, you entirely misconceive this extraordinary proposal.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin
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
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
Penult Capital Partners, which arranges insurance for E&J Estates, said "the various claims made by Velitor are fundamentally misconceived".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
He said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Our claims to knowledge, Montaigne said, are generally misconceived because we will not acknowledge our limits as human beings.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
To come anywhere near fulfilling them requires long time and study, and action unimpeded by a misconceiving community.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
In this instance there was no misconceiving the meaning of the action; but whoever watches birds in the pairing season is often at his wit's end to know what to make of their demonstrations.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
Furthermore, misconceiving or neglecting the category of substance, and the doctrine of substantial change, they find no place in their speculations for any consideration of formal and material causes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
How bitterly they ridiculed its origins and, misconceiving its purpose, dismissed it as a useless appendage of an expiring creed!
From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi
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
