misperceive

• “Clearly, Get Satisfaction has a HUGE communications problem, if so many customers, so many client companies, and so many 37 signals readers 'misperceive' their business.”

  Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0

• “All three sorts of change—life cycle, generational, and period—can occur simultaneously, and thus we are likely to misperceive the slow but inexorable effects of generational change.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “Do not misperceive it as an artifact of the author's "intent.”

  Principles of Literary Criticism

• “While many misperceive the investment made in banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program as an unfair and unjust gift to the financial sector, we have already turned a profit on these investments, and we may do so on all the government intervention programs.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Dodd-Frank Retreat Deserves a Veto

• “Perhaps mine eyes misperceive, but the front of the muzzle break reads "FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY.”

  When is a Rifle Not Accurate Enough?

• “It May Be Fair Sometimes a lack of information can lead workers to misperceive that there's preferential treatment, says Mr. Reed.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beat the Boss's Pet…or Become One

• “For example, if you became defensive to a hostile comment in the past and misperceive constructive, helpful input in the present as an attack and become quickly defensive, that person in the present will quickly begin to realize that they can't give you any input without your taking it the wrong way and they will stop trying to help you.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Goulston, M.D.: How to Raise a Secure Child in Anxious Times, Part 1

• “However, by demonstrating the capabilities and the cost that North Korea would pay in case of further provocation you want to do that in such a way that North Korea does not misperceive or miscalculate, and in fact you end up triggering a war because a war would be very costly.”

  Voice of America: South Korean President Angered by 'Inhumane' Attack

• “Everyone who'd met her was stunned, but that didn't help assuage the fear that if I could so completely misperceive something of that magnitude, how the hell could I trust what I believed about anyone else?”

  liars and cheaters and con men, oh my

• “I do agree that people lie, or misperceive, and that data is a truer bearer of actualities.”

  After 1984 | FactoryCity

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