mistaken
silap
definition
verb
because I was inexperienced, I mistook the nature of our relationship
be wrong about.
adjective
she wondered whether she'd been mistaken about his intentions
wrong in one's opinion or judgment.
example
I was sadly 'mistaken' before, and we have come to an understanding now.
you're sadly 'mistaken'
The dispute was stoked by widespread but 'mistaken' assumptions about how the Iraqis would fight.
As it turned out, Stalin was 'mistaken' on every count.
I suppose there are worse legacies than to have been both very great, and very badly 'mistaken' .
I think Moore is 'mistaken' on all counts.
If you think that a hostage situation like the one in Russia could not happen here, you are sadly 'mistaken' .
He is an amateur pundit, if I am not 'mistaken' , but one of the most insightful writers around.
If this government thinks its fight is only with miners they are sadly 'mistaken' .
Even if these accounts are false or 'mistaken' , surely they deserve some mention?
to be 'mistaken' about sth
In addition, privatisation without adequate competitive pressure creates the 'mistaken' perception that competition does not work.
They, however, are under the 'mistaken' impression she works for them.
I knew I wasn't 'mistaken'!
This further exchange simply underlined the judge's view that counsel was prone to making not bad or 'mistaken' points, but false ones.
There used to be a duty-free shop in this vicinity, if I am not 'mistaken' .
The government, decision-makers and society in general may still have a 'mistaken' view about agriculture.
Why should I not accept it, unless there is a clear indication of why it is either false or 'mistaken' ?
There has been no acknowledgment of the 'mistaken' assumptions on which the modern edifice rests.
Even though this is a 'mistaken' view, it is widely held.
If the past is any indicator to the future, we are quite 'mistaken' .
Innocent people are convicted each year because of 'mistaken' eyewitness identification.
It can also easily lead to a lack of expert leadership and even 'mistaken' judgements.
If you thought Indiana didn't have a prayer against Oklahoma, you were 'mistaken' on two counts.
There is a 'mistaken' belief that academic and sporting achievement is mutually exclusive.
that's just where you're 'mistaken'!
Yet it would be 'mistaken' to assume that British support for the US hard line on Iraq was inevitable.
I was 'mistaken'
If I am not 'mistaken' , the evidence to support this characterizaton is pretty skimpy.
Have poets accepted the 'mistaken' notion that poetry is a dying art form?
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