be regarded as
Synonyms
Examples
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.