mistaken
Example Sentences
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Was there a chance the old fox had been mistaken?
From Literature
But if you thought the musicals-as-stunt-programming trend blew itself out completely, you are mistaken.
From Salon
"I would have been mistaken for thinking I'd done some serious misconduct or some criminal offence - instead I told a bad joke for which I've apologised," he added.
From BBC
Still others argue the underlying assumption here may be mistaken—that consciousness may not be reducible to computation at all.
It is mistaken to say that violence committed in the name of this insight has nothing to do with Islam, just as it is wrong to think of Islam as an inherently violent religion.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
