misapprehending

Confusing aspersion for evidence doesn't make Palin's case stronger; it just illustrates that she was misapprehending the history of the Soviet Union -- a country that didn't need America's 21st-century problems to collapse for its own reasons, and a topic that deserves far more serious attention than this debate has given it.

Right-wing bloggers defend Sarah Palin's fake history Stephen Stromberg 2011

It had spent twenty years misapprehending the shift in the evolution of automatic arms.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

My apologies for misapprehending it the first time.

The Volokh Conspiracy » More One-Sided “Reporting” from the NYT 2009

In fact, technologists are the worst transgressors when it comes to misapprehending and then misusing or abusing science.

Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to the Force Development Group. 2009

I think you're misapprehending the extent to which the terrain has shifted in recent months.

Rep. John Lewis Compares McCain To George Wallace 2009

The essence of Borat's act is the same as the dialect comics of 1910: the slapstick story of a greenhorn immigrant, bumbling his way across America, mangling the English language, misapprehending the native customs, and looking ridiculous in a big cowboy hat.

GreenCine Daily: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. 2006

They got where they are through misapprehending economics in company with the dominant political party of the era, Republicans.

Stephen Herrington: Detroit, the Last Stand of Middle America 2008

To try and extrapolate a religious cultural viewpoint from a single individual's posting (and after misapprehending it to begin with), is poor logic.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

Given the verdict on the Great Depression that began in 1929—that the U.S. government aggravated the contraction severely by misapprehending the money supply and by failing to exercise global leadership—you would think there might be a premium on this sort of attempt to see economic relationships as they really are.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

The labours of fifty editors confess the defects of the copy, as well as the value of the original; and the school-boy may have been whipped for misapprehending a passage, which Bentley could not restore, and which Burman could not explain.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994