misapprehend

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To understand why O’Connor may have seen her cultural blacklisting as liberating, you have to understand just how deeply she was misapprehended throughout her career.

From New York Times • May 18, 2021

This fear of being misapprehended may in fact have some influence on stuttering itself.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2017

They cover situations in which the meaning of each party’s actions, signals, and desires may have been ambiguous to the other, or misapprehended by one or both sides.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014

These men have so completely misapprehended the nature of humanity that they should be pitied.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

It then remains, perhaps, to apologise for an expression which may be misapprehended.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund