misestimate
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Many of the first-year sites were in high-poverty neighborhoods — and that could be one reason for the misestimate, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2016
In a magazine article a few months later, he accused Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II of making a "shocking misestimate" of the situation, which belatedly prompted cancellation of Eisenhower's trip to Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would not have survived had not Roebuck and his crowd been at the same time making an even more colossal misestimate of me than I was making of them.
From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips
In this Class, there is not, as in all other fallacies there is, a positive misestimate of evidence actually had.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
The original warning came five days in advance but misestimated the location of the landfall by 250 miles.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2022
“I felt like I just shouldn’t have run the piece at all, because I fundamentally misestimated how prepared the writer was for this to go public.”
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2015
Moreover, Burgoyne wofully misestimated the resources, spirit, and fighting capacity of his adversary.
From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Samuel Adams Drake
