misstep — İngilizce Sözlük

İsim

1. A step that is wrong, a false step.

   Örnekler

   On a high ledge, a misstep could be fatal.

   […] burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction.

2. An error or mistake.

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   • mecaz

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   His comment was a misstep that could cost him dearly.

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   Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.

Fiil

1. To step badly or incorrectly.

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   • geçişsiz

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   My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe.

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   Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.

2. To make an error or mistake.

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   • geçişsiz

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   I don't want to misstep by offending them.

İsim

1. an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   triptrip-upstumble

   Daha genel terimler

   blunderblooperbloomerbunglepratfallfoul-upfuckupflubbotchbonerboo-boo

   Örnekler

   he recited the whole poem without a single trip

   he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later

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   confusion caused his unfortunate misstep