honest mistake

noun

: something that anyone could be wrong about

Don't worry about it. It was an honest mistake.

Examples of honest mistake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Without the original to check against, an honest mistake and a deliberate fabrication look identical on the page. — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 15 June 2026

Most School Board members echoed the belief that the incident was an honest mistake. — Natalie La Roche Pietri, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026

Smith said that no taxes were due in one of the cases mentioned, and that the other was an honest mistake. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2025

What head coach John Harbaugh called an honest mistake could end up costing the Baltimore Ravens dearly. — Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

Keathley says there needed to be evidence of bad faith, but the nondisclosure was an honest mistake. — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2025

Sending random cartoon images with ridiculous captions is perhaps an honest mistake. — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

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