misconceive

Example Sentences

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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

This is, of course, to misconceive the Evangelist’s meaning.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

I am concerned that he should in any instance misconceive me.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel

For her purposes she preferred that he should entirely misconceive her.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen