blunder's Usage Examples:

The end was now near, and Pompey blundered into a false political position and an open quarrel with Caesar.

It is difficult to suppose that such a blunder was not preconcerted.

Through a series of confusions and blunders, Mar prematurely raised on the 16th of September 1715 the standard of King James, and though in command of a much larger army than ever followed Montrose, was baffled by Argyll, who held Stirling with a very small force.

His one great economic blunder was the attempt to make the sale of spirits a government monopoly, which was an obvious infringement upon the privileges of the estates.

Even if you're generally quite responsible with your money, you may still be making a few financial blunders that sabotage your savings efforts.

A small impression was slowly dispersed; the bookseller murmured, and the author (had his feelings been more exquisite) might have wept over the blunders and baldness of the English translation.

While in the Rostovs' ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezukhov had a sixth stroke.

Each of his great humiliations followed as the natural result of crimes or blunders.

He was afraid of getting some other officer into trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagration as a schoolboy who has blundered looks at an examiner.

The separation of sense and understanding is for him unjustifiable, and only paralleled by the extraordinary blunder of severing matter and form.

It had indeed been alleged, on Clarendon's authority, that he proposed to murder Hamilton and Argyll; but this is in all probability only one of Clarendon's many blunders.

Such experience would have saved accomplished and fluent Greek writers like Timaeus from many of their blunders (xii.

Synonyms:

gaffe, trip, blooper, howler, fuckup, boo-boo, faux pas, mistake, spectacle, error, botch, gaucherie, misstep, stumble, bungle, bloomer, bobble, fumble, clanger, boner, trip-up, bull, solecism, fluff, muff, flub, snafu, pratfall, slip, foul-up, fault,

Antonyms:

irresponsibleness, merit, worthlessness, absolve, perfection,