Wrong+step

  • 51bevue — Synonyms and related words: bad job, balk, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, botch, bungle, clumsy performance, error, etourderie, false move, false step, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaucherie, hash, inadvertence,… …

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  • 52false move — Synonyms and related words: balk, bevue, false step, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step …

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  • 53inadvertence — Synonyms and related words: absentmindedness, balk, bevue, carelessness, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, failure, false move, false step, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, giddiness …

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  • 54miscue — Synonyms and related words: bad job, balk, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a… …

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  • 55misstep — Synonyms and related words: balk, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blunder, error, false move, false step, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, mistake,… …

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  • 56oversight — Synonyms and related words: accountability, administration, aegis, auspices, balk, bevue, blank, blunder, bossing, care, carelessness, charge, chasm, check, civil government, conduct, control, culpa, culpable negligence, cure, custodianship,… …

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  • 57slip of the tongue — Synonyms and related words: balk, bevue, false move, false step, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, misstep, omission, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble, trip, wrong step …

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  • 58slipup — Synonyms and related words: balk, bevue, blooper, blunder, boner, bungle, error, false move, false step, fluff, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, miscue, miss, misstep, mistake, near miss, omission,… …

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  • 59misstep — n. Wrong step, false step …

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  • 60misstep — mis•step [[t]mɪsˈstɛp[/t]] n. 1) a wrong step 2) an error or slip in conduct • Etymology: 1790–1800 …

    From formal English to slang