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51oversight — 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,… …
52slip — Synonyms and related words: Mystik tape, Scotch tape, accord, adhesive tape, administer, adolescent, advance, afford, afghan, allot, allow, amplitude, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, atrocity, avalanche, avoidance, avoiding reaction, award,… …
53slip 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 …
54slipup — 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,… …
55stumble — Synonyms and related words: bad job, balk, barge, be all thumbs, bevue, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo boo, botch, breakdown, bumble, bump, bump into, bungle, butcher,… …
56stumble — I. v. a. 1. Obstruct, trip, cause to stumble. 2. Perplex, confound, puzzle, nonplus, confuse, embarrass, pose. II. v. n. 1. Trip, miss one s footing, make a false step. 2. Err, do wrong. III. n. 1 …
57contretemps — n 1.(all of an embarrassing or inopportune nature) mistake, error, blunder, botch, bungle, Inf. slip up; All Sl. boner, boo boo, goof, blooper, boggle, boot, dumb trick, fool mistake, screw up, foul up, louse up. 2.(all of an embarrassing or… …
58downfall — n 1. collapse, debacle, breakdown, break up; drop, fall, descent, crash, smash, tailspin or tail spin, nose dive; defeat, overthrow, overturn, labefaction, coup d’etat; undoing, ruin, ruination; debasement, abasement, degradation; shame, disgrace …
59indecorum — n 1. impropriety, improperness, incorrectness, unseemliness, unbecomingness, inappro priateness, unsuitableness, unfittingness, indecorousness; inelegance, indelicacy, tastelessness, bad taste; impoliteness, incivility, ungentlemanliness,… …
60indiscretion — n 1. imprudence, improvidence, injudiciousness, impolicy, inexpediency; hastiness, rashness, brashness, recklessness, temerity, impulsiveness, impetuosity, audacity; folly, foolishness, foolhardiness; heedlessness, carelessness, unwariness,… …
