Definition of misstep
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: a mistake in judgment or action : blunder
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: a wrong step
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Examples of misstep in a Sentence
Their decision to relocate the company was a major misstep.
another misstep like that, and the company could go belly-up
Recent Examples of misstep from the Web
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Even the slightest misstep can provoke China’s vindictive pique.
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The financial missteps are just the latest for Seattle's progressive leadership, which has advanced other expensive social projects that critics have called inefficient and unsuccessful.
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The fun factor is high; the service missteps minor and forgivable.
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Trump’s regard for Bezos and the Post has not improved since Inauguration Day, especially with the newspaper’s aggressive coverage of the missteps and malfeasance in this White House.
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To avoid the missteps of the past, SCERS has hired Adams Street Partners, a firm specializing in private equity, to make such investments on SCERS’ behalf.
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The hope is that the inevitable missteps won't be disastrous enough to prompt Congress to step in and torpedo the movement altogether.
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Grangoff said the agency discovered the processing misstep early last month and launched an internal audit to determine how the case was forgotten.
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In both cases, Trump’s party appears to have avoided the missteps that doomed candidates in high-profile Senate races in the past.
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First Known Use of misstep
1788
misstep Synonyms
Synonyms
blunder, bobble, boo-boo, brick, clinker, error, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip;
Near Antonyms
accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, strictness;
Related Words
bloomer, blooper, boner, howler, pratfall;
misapprehension, miscalculation, miscomprehension, misconception, misconstruction, miscue, misdescription, misimpression, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misstatement, misunderstanding;
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Definition of misstep for English Language Learners
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: an action or decision that is a mistake
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