Examples
“III. ii.24 (321,5) yet had he mistook him, and sent him to me] [W: mislook'd] I rather read, _yet had he_ not _mistook him, and sent to me_.”
“Like the inventors of the Backstreet Boys, pet rocks and the Macarena dance, Sarah Palin mistook fame for actual talent and durability.”
“Late last year, Palin mistook Iraq for Iran when she suggested that the U.S. has to crack down on Iraq to prevent nuclear war in Iran.”
“It's nothing this side of deplorable that Chaim Levine -- yeah that's his real name mistook this rock star for his exit strategy.”
The Washington Post: Charlie Sheen's radio rant: From 'Apocalypse Now' to pee tests
“Ms. Deng got in a quarrel with Huang Dezhi when he "mistook" her for a bathhouse attendant and asked her for "cross gender" services, according to a police report.”
The Wall Street Journal: China Murder Case Sparks Women's Rights Uproar
“How gullible can this jury be to collectively accept that this gun-happy moron "mistook" his weapon for the taser that he carries on the opposite side of his body?”
“A hunter "mistook" her for, you guessed it, a deer.”
“No one ever mistook a paparazzo for an Olympic gymnast.”
“Last autumn he visited the emergency room after accidentally clipping his finger in a hedge trimmer, which seemed quite dire relative to the wheezing infant of freaked-out first-time parents, an elderly woman who gargled citronella torch fuel she mistook for mouthwash, and a teenager too stoned to notice or mind that his right foot pointed back instead of front, the result of a Jackass copycat stunt gone bad.”
“Strangers mistook our eyes for soft deposits of crude oil, turned our skin into opium dreams they could smoke.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘mistook’.
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mis-
wrongly; badly; unsuitably
misname, mismanage, misapply, misanthrope, miscalculate, mistake, mistook, misstep, misdirect, misfortune, misadventure, misalign and 22 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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