There was no mistaking her meaning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : I mistook him for the mayor. From Dictionary.com.
The new singers don't necessarily all sound alike, but they tend to resemble one another in mistaking vocal calisthenics for improvisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Epidemic] Reference
If I am not mistaking, that is an electric fiddle. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
I have opinions, but I don't recall mistaking them for the "truth.". From Wordnik.com. [To slp and an Iraq thought] Reference
Magog is Magog; and the idea of mistaking the one for the other seems ludicrous in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned namely mistaking systems for causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for cause. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: The New World Order, Verichip and the Microchip Agenda] Reference
Longer incidents were excluded because they showed more signs of driver error such as mistaking the accelerator for the brake. From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
There you go again mistaking fear for contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress] Reference
Does your child reverse letters such as mistaking a "B" for a "D" or does he have to squint to see the words on the pages?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Yet there is no mistaking the gravity of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Incorrigibles] Reference
There was no mistaking me yesterday at the auto show. From Wordnik.com. [Technicolor dreamcoats] Reference
He is Owen the Third now, there is no mistaking it. From Wordnik.com. [Independence Day] Reference
The bar is noisy but there's no mistaking the question. From Wordnik.com. [Would You F*ck Rebecca?] Reference
But from the first note, there's no mistaking that voice. From Wordnik.com. [New CD Set Celebrates Billie Holiday] Reference
There's no mistaking the thrill in Ghul Agha Akhund's voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Mullah Omar] Reference
The player paid dearly for mistaking what he thought was a patch of dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Dustin Johnson has only himself to blame for PGA Championship gaffe] Reference
I will say to her what I have to say calmly so as for there to be no mistaking it. From Wordnik.com. [Chumming the Ocean] Reference
There was no mistaking it, his features were slacker, the hair gone, but it was him. From Wordnik.com. [The Island] Reference
But her vocabulary beats out Daly's (and there's no mistaking that posh British accent). From Wordnik.com. [MTV’s British Invasion] Reference
It's a hardball move, but also shows something else: Dole risks mistaking maneuver for message. From Wordnik.com. [Dress-Down Dole] Reference
The shiny stone reflected oneself so perfectly that there was no mistaking one's distinctness. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Park (Part II)] Reference
"I'll have the Cobb salad and the beeftournedos," she says, apparently mistaking me forun garcon. From Wordnik.com. [Quixote Bronson, Savior of Neglected Suburban Housewives] Reference
Mr. Orban should beware mistaking a relatively calm market reaction for support for his policy stance. From Wordnik.com. [Hungary Investors Could Lose Appetite] Reference
He described Saturn as "triune" in form, mistaking the rings for a planet straddled by two close moons. From Wordnik.com. [SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: From Galileo to Cassini -- 400 Years of Saturn's Rings] Reference
Some Veterans Affairs computers still spit out data mistaking female veterans for wives of men who fought. From Wordnik.com. [VA is stepping up its services for female veterans] Reference
Although they were unsure of foot, gray-headed and frail, there was no mistaking the resolve in their eyes. From Wordnik.com. ['A Day of Reckoning'] Reference
But there was no hint of his self-deprecating humor -- and no mistaking the valedictory tone of his communique. From Wordnik.com. ['I Wish I Could Spare Nancy'] Reference
There's no mistaking the power of "Over There" -- or the fact that it's the most up-close-and-gross show since "CSI.". From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR FOR YOUR LIVING ROOM] Reference
The French may be relieved at their deliverance from Le Penisme, but there's no mistaking the deep sense of disaffection. From Wordnik.com. [Season Of Shock] Reference
But there's no mistaking the scene in Ramallah, a Palestinian town north of Jerusalem, for Brooklyn or the West Side of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [America's Uneasy Export] Reference
The implicit threat was obvious, and there was no mistaking the possibility that the Gates-Bradley battle was getting out of hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Score: Gates 1, Bradley 0] Reference
But there was no mistaking their common purpose, to stand fast in the defense of liberty against the tyranny of Islamic fanaticism. From Wordnik.com. [Moving Targets] Reference
Once I visited the campus at Sewanee -- the most beautiful, according to Princeton Review -- and people kept mistaking me for a gargoyle. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing the Princeton Review college rankings] Reference
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