misestimate

Example Sentences

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Many of the first-year sites were in high-poverty neighborhoods — and that could be one reason for the misestimate, he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2016

In a magazine article a few months later, he accused Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II of making a "shocking misestimate" of the situation, which belatedly prompted cancellation of Eisenhower's trip to Japan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would not have survived had not Roebuck and his crowd been at the same time making an even more colossal misestimate of me than I was making of them.

From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham

I believe we misestimate Mahomet’s faults even as faults: but the secret of him will never be got by dwelling there.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas