misestimate

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

I believe we misestimate Mahomet's faults even as faults: but the secret of him will never be got by dwelling there.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Phillips, David Graham