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
"You misconceive the whole situation, I think, nevertheless," said Mr. Whitechoker.
From The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
Plato—whom we refer to, because he is the coryphaeus of all the diverse host of Greek philosophy—seems to overestimate or rather to misconceive the place of knowledge.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You mustn't be surprised at anything from an accepted lover.—I'm sure you misconceive her.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
Police did not initially launch a search and rescue operation because of a "misconceived view that there were no concerns for the children's welfare", according to the inquiry's findings published on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
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
Furthermore, misconceiving or neglecting the category of substance, and the doctrine of substantial change, they find no place in their speculations for any consideration of formal and material causes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
The early modern interpreters of the jurisprudence of Rome, misconceiving the meaning of Jus Gentium, assumed without hesitation that the Romans had bequeathed to them a system of rules for the adjustment of international transactions.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
How bitterly they ridiculed its origins and, misconceiving its purpose, dismissed it as a useless appendage of an expiring creed!
From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi
There was no misconceiving the light that illumined the doctor's round, rosy face.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
They think, poor misconceiving companions! that we be all a-dying for them.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
