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Definition of Mistaken

Mistaken

  1. of Mistake
  2. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
  3. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.

Mistaken Quotations

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
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Mistaken Translations

mistaken in Afrikaans is verkeerd, onjuis
mistaken in Dutch is foutief, verkeerd, fout, onjuist
mistaken in German is vertan, geirrt
mistaken in Norwegian is urett
mistaken in Portuguese is confundido
mistaken in Spanish is malo, alucinar

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