30 adjectives to describe misconceptions

The same 'crambe bis decies cocta' of one self-same charge grounded on one gross and stupid misconception and mis-statement: and to which there needs no other answer than this simple fact.

It is seldom possible to mistake one of these cases for the other, without a total misconception of the author's meaning.

They would have created another Turkey in Europe, in the same geographical relation, the scene of the same rival intrigues, and the same fertile source of constant misconceptions and wars.

But all his attempts to open the drawers were unavailing, and this was not so much owing to the shaking of his hands as to his continual misconceptions.

I speak, at least, from the standpoint of experience; in the last resort the hostility, fear and suspicion which from time to time gains currency among the great mass of the people, is due to those elementary misconceptions as to the relation of prosperity, the opportunities of life, to military power.

Many of the Irish Friends had formed from hearsay the most extravagant misconceptions concerning the Friends called "Hicksites."

Unfortunately the change did not escape either the sensitive observation or the fatuous misconception of the sagacious parent.

You will understand now how it was necessary, if only in the interests of humanity, that Hill should demolish Wedderburn in the forthcoming examination and outshine him in the eyes of Miss Haysman; and you will perceive, too, how Miss Haysman fell into some common feminine misconceptions.

I have observed in the course of some experience that difficulties originating with the law are peculiarly apt to foster misconceptions.

There has been a fundamental misconception that conservation means nothing but the husbanding of resources for future generations.

Grotesque misconceptions, fostered by the same mistaken zeal, are still widely prevalent.

It was the horrible misconceptions that we saw might arise; the odious imputations on honour and purity that would follow.

This was an initial misconception, which continued, as will be seen, to be a deeper and deeper source of confusion as the years went on.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Lord Courtney is the last survivor in public life of the personal disciples of Mill, and at present he is devoting himself to a campaign in favour of 'proportional representation,' in which, as it seems to me, the old intellectualist misconceptions reappear in another form.

Thwart not his purpose by a cold refusal, By an intended misconception.

Powers, mechanical, misconception respecting.

But this is mere misconception of what I have said.

They are both very short, the first contains an adventure on the road, and the last Mr. Papillon's banishment under the Alien Act from a ministerial misconception of a metaphysical sonnet.

The present value and interest of these now rare books has suggested their republication, to make available to Filipino students a course of study which their national hero found profitable as well as to correct the myriad misconceptions of things Philippine in the minds of those who have taken the accepted Spanish accounts as gospel truths.

This persistent misconception is worth a little examination.

It is the want of a due sense of humility, and a sad misconception of what we are, and for what we were created, that misleads us in the due estimate of our own insignificance, as Compared with the majesty of God.

This appears to us, we confess, a rather shallow misconception.

Whatever may be the cause, whether from sheer misconception or an intention to mislead, it is almost impossible to rely upon any intelligence given concerning the sailing of vessels and other events, about which it would appear very possible to obtain authentic information.

"There has been a singular misconception between us, and yet is this no moment for explanations!

30 adjectives to describe  misconceptions