Any other choice would be a misreckoning, wrong-headed however well-intentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
It was now clear to him that he had made a grave misreckoning; humiliating, perhaps irreparable. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference
For consequences of words are not the signs of his will, when other consequences are signs of the contrary; but rather signs of error and misreckoning, to which all mankind is too prone. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference
For consequences of words, are not the signes of his will, when other consequences are signes of the contrary; but rather signes of errour, and misreckoning; to which all mankind is too prone. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
What misunderstanding of others, and misreckoning of the things that most concerned her -- what blind drifting -- what inevitable shipwreck!. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference
"Sir Denis," or misreckoning the ships of Sir R. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Hepzibah blundered to and fro about her small place of business, committing the most unheard of errors: now stringing up twelve, and now seven tallow-candles, instead of ten to the pound; selling ginger for Scotch snuff, pins for needles, and needles for pins; misreckoning her change, sometimes to the public detriment, and much oftener to her own; and thus she went on, doing her utmost to bring chaos back again, until, at the close of the day's labor, to her inexplicable astonishment, she found the money-drawer almost destitute of coin. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Hepzibah blundered to and fro about her small place of business, committing the most unheard-of errors: now stringing up twelve, and now seven, tallow-candles, instead of ten to the pound; selling ginger for Scotch snuff, pins for needles, and needles for pins; misreckoning her change, sometimes to the public detriment, and much oftener to her own; and thus she went on, doing her utmost to bring chaos back again, until, at the close of the day's labor, to her inexplicable astonishment, she found the money-drawer almost destitute of coin. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
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