Sentence examples for if mistaken from inspiring English sources

If they are, I'll accept there's a benign, if mistaken, motive for these spies in the sky.

It was part of a legitimate, if mistaken, presentational campaign to win the UK to George Bush's timetable for war.

Why don't you better say 'yedonder pup' or yerfider you?' " His suggestion of substituting nonsense words left a lasting, if mistaken, impression.

In the main, though, what drives the new drug warriors is the same conviction that animated the old ones: the sincere, if mistaken, belief that cracking down on traffickers and users will make addiction go away.

Ryan Avent writes on the environment-focused site Grist that he is happy that "some conservative thinkers are beginning to wrestle with warming in an intellectually honest, if mistaken, manner".

Perhaps the reluctance to call all of this out begins with the benign (if mistaken) idea that to be critical about these films would be to patronise their large audiences.

Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, told France Inter radio that "if mistakes were made, then those who made them should go".

If every mistaken accuser got called before a jury, who would ever speak up?

Hostess asked if he had mistaken time.

Mr. Keller may be correct, but what if he is mistaken?

(My readers will assist me if I am mistaken).