| bonehead play(expression, error, muddle, blunder) | |
| breach(noun, break, slip, mess, mistake) | |
| bumble(noun, mistake, rudeness, lapse, error) | |
| chemise | |
| colossal blunder(expression, break, slip, mess, mistake) | |
| confusion(noun, fault, mess, mistake, lapse) | |
| crudeness(noun, mistake, rudeness, lapse, error) | |
| cutting | |
| defect(noun, error) | |
| delusion(noun, confusion, fault, mistake, lapse) | |
| distortion(noun, error) | |
| dropping the ball(expression, idiom, mistake, rudeness, lapse) | |
| dumb move(noun, expression, fault, mistake, rudeness) | |
| elusion | |
| excitability(noun, mistake, rudeness, lapse, error) | |
| failure(mistake, error, blunder) | |
| fallacy(noun, error) | |
| false move(noun, expression, confusion, fault, lapse) | |
| false step(noun, expression, confusion, failure, fault) | |
| falsehood(noun, error) |
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