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- verb Present participle of
misunderestimate .
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Examples
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But I think you might be "misunderestimating" the importance of regime-change in Iraq, with regards to the Cedar Revolution.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Catchphrases like "misunderestimating" and "is our children learning?" show up here and there, reminders of Bush's gaffe-filled public speaking career.
Archive 2008-10-01 Ed Howard 2008
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Morpheus 'inquiry misread the demise of its answer many times over, mostly by underestimating (or "misunderestimating," as President Bush is wont to say) not only the exponential advance of technology but also its light-speed democratization.
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Catchphrases like "misunderestimating" and "is our children learning?" show up here and there, reminders of Bush's gaffe-filled public speaking career.
W. Ed Howard 2008
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Even in the early days of the war, we chortled about "misunderestimating" or cringed about how we were going to get the "folks" who attack us.
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Ever since he diagnosed Terri Schiavo by video as "just resting her eyes", he has floated one craptacular idea after another, pitched innumerable public hissy fits, stamped his little tassel loafers, and taken effete Oily Southern Preacherism places it has truly never, ever gone before, all the while exhibiting a complete tin ear for the tenor of the times, and, to borrow a Bushism™, grossly "misunderestimating" the intelligence of the American people.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: There’s Someone Here to See You, Dr. Frist 2006
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I think Bush's opponents are "misunderestimating" him again.
The racial side of the filibuster controversy. Ann Althouse 2005
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Or, as a previous president might have put it, they are wildly "misunderestimating" our 44th president.
Squarestate - Front Page Lowell Feld NRDC Action Fund 2010
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We apologize for "misunderestimating" the perfidy and the extent that Republican ideologues, whose only goal is to regain power at any cost, would go in their attempt to demonize President Barack Obama's gift to America.
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We apologize for "misunderestimating" the perfidy and the extent that Republican ideologues, whose only goal is to regain power at any cost, would go in their attempt to demonize President Barack Obama's gift to America.
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