misconceive

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Mäkelä misconceives “The Rite of Spring” to an almost incomprehensible degree; the riotous ballet is rendered so calmly, so tamely here that it could qualify for an “easy listening” playlist.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

To call him a master of chaos misconceives his relationship to the situation, as though a toddler mid-tantrum is still in control.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2017

But this attack totally misconceives what Piketty means by capital and his arguments about the determinants of the rate of return on capital, misconceptions Suresh Naidu has dubbed “Bastard Pikettyism.”

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2014

Democracy did not arise out of 18th Century political and industrial conflicts, as a momentarily popular view misconceives.

From Time Magazine Archive

This aspect of the tragedy the theory quite misses; and it does so because it misconceives the cause of that irresolution which, on the whole, it truly describes.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)