misconceive

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

Plato—whom we refer to, because he is the coryphaeus of all the diverse host of Greek philosophy—seems to overestimate or rather to misconceive the place of knowledge.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Pray, my dear sir, my dear Mr. Dingwell, don't misconceive; we use slang phrases, now and then, without the least meaning or disrespect: it has become quite the tong.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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

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

In his first major interview in Downing Street, the prime minister said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024

The panel also described Mr Benton's arguments as "misconceived or erroneous", finding the sanction was "neither unreasonable nor disproportionate".

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024

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

President Day should have avoided the error of Edwards, in thus misconceiving the doctrine of his opponents; for he expressly distinguishes the sensibility from the will.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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

But, misconceiving the views of the administration, he reserved these representations until complaints should be made, and omitted to urge them while the Directory was deliberating on the course it should pursue.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder

The only safeguard against this sort of misconceiving is to insist on varied statement, and to bring the child's conceptions, wherever it be possible, to some sort of practical test.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James

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