error
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(noun) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed |
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Synonyms: misplay |
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Related Words: failure |
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(noun) departure from what is ethically acceptable |
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Synonyms: wrongdoing |
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Related Words: evil, evilness |
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(noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
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Synonyms: erroneous belief |
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Related Words: misconception |
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(noun) part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" |
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Synonyms: mistake |
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Related Words: corrigendum, erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, misstatement, typo, typographical error |
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(noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "the fault was all mine" |
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Synonyms: fault, mistake |
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Related Words: balls-up, ballup, betise, blooper, blot, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, cockup, confounding, confusion, distortion, flub, folly, foolishness, footfault, foul-up, fuckup, imbecility, lapse, mess-up, miscalculation, miscue, misdoing, misestimation, misreckoning, mix-up, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, omission, oversight, renege, revoke, skip, slip, slipup, smear, smirch, spot, stain, stupidity |
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(noun) inadvertent incorrectness |
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Synonyms: erroneousness |
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Related Words: deviation, incorrectness, wrongness |
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