Centre introducing cut that's wrongly perceived (8)
I believe the answer is:
misheard
'that's wrongly perceived' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'centre introducing cut' is the wordplay.
'centre' becomes 'mid'.
'introducing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters introduced or inserted into others).
'cut' becomes 'shear' (shearing is a kind of cutting).
'mid' going around 'shear' is 'MISHEARD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for misheard that I've seen before include "Picked up bad" , "Picked up by inattentive" , "Failed to listen correctly" , "(Of speech) not understood correctly" , "Chinese whispers are usually" .)