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
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
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
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
In this Class, there is not, as in all other fallacies there is, a positive misestimate of evidence actually had.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
