Example Sentences
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Many families mistakingly think that paying under the table will help their nannies out but it can cut them out of qualifying for things like Earned Income Tax Credits and stimulus payments.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2023
His argument provoked a furious response from games writers, pundits and players, many of whom mistakingly understood his position to be generally anti-games – and therefore evil.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2010
I would have you beware of that unfeeling state in which one has no sorrow, and mistakingly attributes its absence to grace.
From How to Live a Holy Life by Orr, Charles Ebert
I propose, as a counterpart, to exonerate Pope Pius V. from an imputation, mistakingly, though unjustly, cast upon him by an authority of no less weight than that of Sir Walter Scott.
Hardened as he was, the physician felt reluctance to pass the threshold of the man to whose death he had been so directly, though, so far as the individual was concerned, mistakingly, accessory.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir
