misgauge - gauge something incorrectly or improperly
estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge - judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
(26) Sometimes, however, a court will misgauge the sufficiency of the proof (or not gauge it at all) and render a default judgment on a claim that the plaintiff failed to show was viable.
To the left side, however, almost at the end of the tunnel, behind a roughly fractured protrusion of porphyry, on which flakes of iron pyrites glinted in the acetylene lamplight, Octavius pointed at a narrow fissure, easy to overlook and easy to misgauge as to depth.
The increasing use of gift cards and the time lag between purchase of the cards and when the recipient redeems them for merchandise, allowing retailers to recognize the sale, apparently caused analysts to misgauge 2006 holiday sales as being weaker than expected.
Social psychologists have long understood that ambiguous criteria for judgment and limited communication lead individuals to misgauge their beliefs in relation to others', whether through self-serving appraisals (Alicke, 1985; Dunning, Meyerowitz, & Holzberg, 1989; Van Lange, 1991), uniqueness effects (Campbell, 1986; Goethals, 1986; Marks & Miller, 1987), or pluralistic ignorance (Hofer & Brown, 1992; Miller & McFarland, 1987; Miller & Prentice, 1996).
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misgauge - gauge something incorrectly or improperly