misconceive
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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
When we revolt against primitive facts, we equally misconceive the constitution of our intelligence and the end of philosophy.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
But to suppose that either of these charges extends to the character of the moralist is altogether to misconceive the position which moral theories actually hold in life.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
But in his own time it came upon ears which were naturally disposed to misconceive it.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In this instance there was no misconceiving the meaning of the action; but whoever watches birds in the pairing season is often at his wit's end to know what to make of their demonstrations.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
By permission of Congress Franklin replied by a long letter, not deficient in courtesy of language, but full of argument upon the American side, and in a tone which there was no misconceiving.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
It proved to be nothing but a reconnoissance, and showed that Hood was strangely misconceiving the situation.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
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
The figure was at a premium, and fit for any glass case that its vivacity should allow to enclose it—wherein it might be surrounded by wondering, admiring and often quite inevitably misconceiving observers.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
