misjudged; misjudging; misjudges
: to be mistaken in judgment
1
: to estimate wrongly
I misjudged how long this would take.
2
: to have an unjust opinion of
I'm sorry that I misjudged you.
Examples of misjudge in a Sentence
I can see that I've completely misjudged you. I apologize.
The outfielder misjudged the fly ball and it went over his head.
The pilot misjudged the landing.
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The trend closely matches data previously disclosed by Waymo, where self-driving vehicles are often hit by inattentive human drivers who misjudge or fail to anticipate the car’s cautious stopping behavior.
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
Lens should already have been level — or even ahead — at the break but striker Wesley Saïd misjudged a close-range header and then shot straight at goalkeeper Matvei Safonov in first-half stoppage time.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
The green is guarded by two bunkers on each side that will catch plenty of shots that misjudge the elevation.
—CBS News, 10 May 2026
The show still leans too heavily on hallucinations, and the early episodes misjudge what’s appealing to the viewers (Alexa Barajas’ Mari moves to the center of the wilderness action, while there’s an entire B-story in the present about Shauna’s family karma).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
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Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
Lens should already have been level — or even ahead — at the break but striker Wesley Saïd misjudged a close-range header and then shot straight at goalkeeper Matvei Safonov in first-half stoppage time.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
The green is guarded by two bunkers on each side that will catch plenty of shots that misjudge the elevation.
—CBS News, 10 May 2026
The show still leans too heavily on hallucinations, and the early episodes misjudge what’s appealing to the viewers (Alexa Barajas’ Mari moves to the center of the wilderness action, while there’s an entire B-story in the present about Shauna’s family karma).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
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“Misjudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misjudge. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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