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mistaken English

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mistaken

If you are mistaken, you are in error.

mistaken

(= misguided) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment well-meaning but misguided teachers a mistaken belief mistaken identity (= false) arising from error a false assumption a mistaken view of the situation

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Simple sentences

Good afternoon. You are our new neighbor, if I'm not mistaken?
It's quite possible that I'm mistaken.
You are mistaken: he plays double bass, not trombone.
Boy, was I mistaken.
If I'm not mistaken, I think I've seen it somewhere.
If I am not mistaken, Tom didn't promise anything.
Perry is mistaken in thinking that Emmet's theory was constructed without reference to Newtonian physics.
You are mistaken as to what makes him so nervous.
At last he realized that he was mistaken.
I'm afraid you're mistaken.
The war resulted from a mistaken policy.
You are mistaken about that.
That's where you're mistaken.
I'm sorry, but I think you're mistaken.
John's mother looks so young that she is often mistaken for his elder sister.
You seem to have mistaken me for my elder brother.
You may have mistaken Jane for his sister.
Your policy is mistaken.
I pointed out that he was mistaken about the matter.
Neither you nor I are mistaken.
It appears that you are all mistaken.
He was mistaken for his younger brother.
I am often mistaken for my brother.

Movie subtitles

Unless all our calculations and investigations are mistaken.yes!
Mother, you must admit you were mistaken.
But no, you are quite mistaken.
You're quite mistaken, Baron.
He is mistaken.
Boss y-y'alls m-mistaken. me and money have been strangers for years.
If I am not mistaken, this is Mr. Robert Rainsford. who hunts big game so adventurously.
Now look here. You must be mistaken.
As to that, I am not mistaken.
Oh, I must apologize for entering unannounced, but if I am not mistaken, Madame Colet?
Oh, I must be mistaken.
But you must be mistaken.
Those same books, if I am not mistaken teach that the black cat is deathless.
And if I am not mistaken, he intends you to play a part in that ritual.
Unless I'm mistaken, you're the Isaac Gilmore who alerted us.
The state highway is riddled with signs of an attack, and after we had followed those signs, we came upon this scene of devastation, which could be mistaken for a battlefield.
Perhaps I'm mistaken.
I may be mistaken.
Bot no, you are quite mistaken.
You're mistaken.
Here are a few more of your mistaken conclusions.
I don't. Evidently, I'm mistaken.
And I've come to apologize because I was mistaken.
Matt, you must be mistaken.
You're mistaken about the whole thing.
If I am not mistaken, this is Mr. Robert Rainsford. who hunts big game so adventurously. Yeah?
You must be mistaken.
And if bud and his gang think they can change that by bombing us, they're going to be sorely mistaken. Yeah. Real sorely.
You're mistaken. We're not at home here.
OH, YOU MUST BE MISTAKEN, SIR.
I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
I see I was mistaken.
Well, if that's the case, I can assure you you're very much mistaken.
I came to tell you that I was mistaken.
No, I'm not mistaken.
But you've been mistaken about me.
You're terribly mistaken.

News and current affairs

Analysts and pundits have often been mistaken about America's position in the world.
But if central bankers think that today's inflation is simply the product of short-term resource scarcities as opposed to lax monetary policy, they are mistaken.
Thirty years ago, the Afghan mujahedin were mistaken for friends of the West when they fought their country's Soviet invaders.
The negative consequences of this mistaken vision very quickly became apparent.
But this is a mistaken strategy.
Long-term projections based on short-term trends have often been mistaken.
If this is Blair's calculation, he is mistaken.
But the idea that the constitutional crisis is holding everything back is mistaken.
For no one should be mistaken: there are alternatives to European integration - all of them bad, unwanted, and dangerous.
Nevertheless, Indonesians would be mistaken in thinking that they have nothing to fear.
By contrast, suppressing the freedom of speech of Islam's critics merely gives rise to the suspicion that evidence and sound argument cannot show their arguments to be mistaken.
Others will, of course, have to continue to bear the costs of the mistaken and mismanaged adventure in Iraq.
But that common wisdom is grossly mistaken, because British law grants immigrants from all the Commonwealth countries something extraordinary: the right to vote in British elections, even national ones.
This hierarchical structure of complex causal systems seduces us into a sense of understanding at a high level, which is then mistaken for having an understanding at a lower level.
But consider another possibility: suppose that the financial regulator is mistaken in its approach to a particular issue.
It would be a grave mistake, for example, to sell out Ukraine's interests and lift the sanctions imposed on Russia out of the mistaken belief that the Kremlin's assistance is needed in Syria.
On both sides of the Atlantic, however, ignoring the issue seems to have been mistaken for a policy.

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