Inside of 100 yards, you can be 6 inches off if you misestimate the wind or drop, and you'll still hit a deer in the vitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firstest With the Mostest] Reference

For many people, a risky 3% gambling opportunity might just look like it could pay off, if they misestimate the size of the risk involved in a copycat business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Links, March 25, 2007] Reference

For many people, the a risky 3% gambling opportunity might just look like it could pay off, if they misestimate the size of the risk involved in a copycat business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Links, March 25, 2007] Reference

Because of hostility and resentment, I may misestimate or entirely misunderstand someone else's attitude toward me, suspecting them of trying to do me in, when in fact there is nothing to the suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

I think you misestimate the statistics and the use-case he's concerned with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

In this Class, there is not, as in all other fallacies there is, a positive misestimate of evidence actually had.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

So may one great poet, —and he, snow-pure from taint of envy or malice, —misunderstand and misestimate another!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes] Reference

I believe we misestimate Mahomet's faults even as faults: but the secret of him will never be got by dwelling there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

I would not have survived had not Roebuck and his crowd been at the same time making an even more colossal misestimate of me than I was making of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deluge] Reference

What I don’t like about plastic ties is that I misestimate the exact size tie needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPhone Bike Mount, Towel Folding And Fishing-Line Cable Management | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

In engineering, even if prejudice against the Thragarnians starting their own engineering companies was effective at strangling their funding and sales efforts and so forth, and even if no social scientists were struggling to estimate the misestimate, I think it’d be embarrassing to bigots when Thragarnians kept winning the wrong share of engineering and programming contests, solving the wrong share of longstanding important theoretical problems, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reasonoid Roomie Pimping] Reference