SCREWUPS Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

screwups

noun

plural of screwup

as in mistakes

an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy clearly, there's been some sort of screwup about what time we were supposed to meet

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as in butchers

someone who bungles an effort don't ask the office screwup to arrange the holiday party

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Recent Examples of screwups There’s this funny conceit that all the people in Slough House are a bit of screwups, but the show also gets very emotional and suspenseful, and the stakes are often very high. — Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 First of all, don’t hide misdeeds and screwups, which comes naturally by not committing misdeeds and not screwing up. — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026 But the screwups don’t end there. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

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Noun

The system is designed to let robots identify mistakes during operation, adjust their behavior and retain useful experience for subsequent attempts.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Florida judges, lawmakers and governors perpetuate the patently unreliable assumption that jurors never make mistakes.

— Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of mistakes

Noun

His grandparents owned restaurants and his grandfather was one of the first butchers to cut steaks for Morton Steakhouse.

— Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Sabrina came from a high-status family of scholars, and Phillip, the struggling musician and child of butchers, wasn’t enough for her family.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of butchers

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But officials there said that the list appeared to be filled with errors and that setting the ballots aside could effectively disenfranchise legal voters.

— Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
The proposal would also establish that technical errors or inadvertent mistakes in the process cannot be a basis to stop the project.

— Digital Producer, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of errors

Noun

Burks said that leadership blunders are at the problem’s crux.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
Soon-to-be Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski held the Rays to just one run in his five innings, but certainly not without the help of some Rays baserunning blunders.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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