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
But to estimate the pontificate of Gregory by the disasters of its closing years would be to misconceive its significance for the history of the papacy entirely.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Of Mr. Phillips I must say that I at first regarded him through the same veil of prejudice which had caused me so greatly to misconceive the character of Mr. Garrison.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe
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
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
Mrs Vardy later launched an appeal bid against the decision, claiming it constituted "serious misconduct", while Mrs Rooney's lawyers claimed the challenge was "misconceived".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
He said a review of the health service to be published on Thursday finds changes to the NHS were "hopelessly misconceived".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
For wine has many excellences, and one pre-eminent one, about which there is a difficulty in speaking to the many, from a fear of their misconceiving and misunderstanding what is said.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
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
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
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
