1. past tense and past participle of misperceive; to perceive wrongly or inaccurately

Examples

• The student misperceived the teacher’s instructions and completed the wrong assignment.
• His friendly gesture was misperceived as flirtation by his colleague.
• The data was misperceived by the research team, leading to incorrect conclusions.
• She misperceived his silence as anger when he was actually just tired.
• The company’s intentions were misperceived by the public as greedy rather than innovative.
• The witness misperceived the sequence of events during the accident.