mistaken - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • identity: The phrase ' mistaken identity ' was applied in such cases by the media.
  • belief: Unlike the big banks we do not share the mistaken belief that the self employed are a greater risk for loans.
  • impression: Of the best they have a mistaken impression they consider your possible.
  • assumption: Most people make the mistaken assumption that the EU is a free trade area.
  • notion: Clearly, this is a mistaken notion of fairness.
  • perception: This mistaken perception is largely the result of media coverage.

Modifying Another Word

  • profoundly: My own view is that this is a profoundly mistaken analysis.
  • sadly: But, many are sadly mistaken if they think that this condition is far off for them.
  • seriously: Employers are seriously mistaken if they think UCU would sign up to anything else.
  • completely: This article was written to show that this is a completely mistaken idea.
  • much: Angel, if Spike wasn't very much mistaken, was singing the exact same song as when Spike had left.
  • quite: He converted the country to the quite mistaken belief that there was an insurance scheme.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: I prefer not to have to contend with the indignity of getting mistaken for a woman.
  • prove: Some of the questions she did ask were answered, but the information given was later to prove mistaken.
  • appear: However, this characterisation of Stirner's position appears mistaken.
  • seem: To equate the removal from the woman's body and reintroduction of sperm with the removal and reintroduction of ova seems mistaken.

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