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
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 Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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
