misperceive

If people were deprived of good sleep long enough, they misperceived things.

In such cases a person may misperceive the temporal order of the events.

"I thought it was typical of how rap music is misperceived."

They are as one in describing how their job is most often misperceived by outsiders.

"The tone had to be very careful so the message is not misperceived."

The ritual has been misperceived as a form of exorcism.

Natural law has been misperceived as a vast statute book of detailed do's and don't's.

And so they can misperceive even progress as failure.

This champion of market forces is frequently misperceived as advocating no role for government.

I think that he was often misperceived as someone who stood in the way of getting to Misha, for the dancers especially.

First, the political branches of the government will misperceive their own constitutional role, or neglect to exercise it.

But it too is misperceived as aspiring to opera.

But I was a child then, so I might have misperceived it.

The playwright had written the script to use as a study of how people perceive or misperceive reality.

Men and women also misperceive what colors the opposite gender views as fitting for them.

Psychology offers deep insights into how individuals perceive and misperceive information.

One experiment found that people are more likely to misperceive a weapon in the hands of a black man than a white man.

"If you don't handle situations right, you can be misperceived.

"I fear I have allowed you to misperceive my relationship to you."

"Which of the ambassador's orders did you misperceive?"

Her spirit to defend the interests of her children might be misperceived and mar the image.

Since we aren't actually moving and the figure is static, we misperceive the straight lines as curved ones.

This decline in performance would then be misperceived as being related to, or even possibly caused by, the appearance on the magazine cover.

Because English speakers seem to have our heads screwed on backwards, they constantly misperceive their bodies.