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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misjudge
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Automakers misjudged the American consumer when they stopped making convertibles.
▪ I'm sorry -- it seems I've misjudged you.
▪ I misjudged the distance to the turnstile and slammed into it.
▪ In fact, the US generals had seriously misjudged the determination and endurance of the North Vietnamese.
▪ It's easy to misjudge the speed of a car heading toward you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it happens, I misjudged Kip and his whereabouts.
▪ But he had misjudged the speed of his descent.
▪ But she misjudged and slipped over the edge.
▪ Half the time I missed, misjudging the eccentric rotation of the bag and hurting my wrists.
▪ He'd misjudged Paula, he realised.
▪ He had misjudged the situation, and if he had added to his problems, it was his own fault.
▪ Louisa saw that she had misjudged this woman.
▪ The more I think about it, the more I persuade myself that I've misjudged little Selina.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misjudge

Misjudge \Mis*judge"\, v. t. & i. To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misjudge

early 15c.; see mis- (1) + judge (v.). Related: Misjudged; misjudging.

Wiktionary
misjudge

vb. To make an error in judge, to incorrectly assess.

WordNet
misjudge

v. judge incorrectly

Usage examples of "misjudge".

It was very easy at night to misjudge distances, so pilots long ago learned to use the other guy in the aircraft to back them up with the readings from the gauges.

She also knew that she would have to face him eventually to apologise for having misjudged him so readily--and that he would show her no mercy.

She could not remember having felt so foolish or so humiliated--just when everything was beginning to assume different pro-ponions, when she knew that everything she had thought in relation to his concerns had been wrong and was prepared to swallow her pride and apologise for having misjudged him.

Although, she asked herself--when she considered l I l his manner towards her father and herself since their first encounter, which could not be faulted--was it possible that she had misjudged him in that also?

Part of me was very embarrassed over having misjudged him, but another part was wondering if I really had.

Wilson led viciously with his left, but misjudged his distance, receiving a smashing counter on the mark in reply which sent him reeling and gasping to the ropes.

Others misjudged the distance altogether and ditched in the water, just shy of the shoreline.

Clearly they had failed to understand Ida of late, and had misjudged her utterly.

I am mortified with myself beyond measure, and I am bitterly ashamed that my aunt, her own mother, should have so grossly misjudged her.

I thought that if I went to my grave, instead of going to the man who attempted your life, you would see that you had misjudged me.

Indeed, people placed it to her credit that she was so deeply affected, and were all the more inclined to make amends for having misjudged her.

To his mind the depth of her despondency was the measure of her power to realize her imperfection, for he now supposed her depression was caused immediately by the fact that she had been so harshly misjudged, but in the main because of her resemblance to the flower he had tossed away and which he now remembered, with deep satisfaction, was in his note-book, ready to aid in the reassuring and encouraging work upon which he was eager to enter.

I have learned that I misjudged him as truly as he did me, and I have since realized how sadly both facts and appearances were against me.

Sabbath morning, reminded Miss Burton of the time when the poor girl believed that the man she loved, both despised and misjudged her.

He was trying to time this instinctively and felt he had misjudged the wind just a little.