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failure
an act that fails
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error, fault, mistake
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
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failing, flunk
failure to reach a minimum required performance
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naught
complete failure
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loss
the act of losing someone or something
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backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
a failure to maintain a higher state
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error, misplay
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
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confusion, mix-up
a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
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incursion
the mistake of incurring liability or blame
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miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning
a mistake in calculating
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distortion
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up
a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
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offside
(sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
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lapse, oversight
a mistake resulting from inattention
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omission, skip
a mistake resulting from neglect
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bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall
an embarrassing mistake
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balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up
something badly botched or muddled
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out
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
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dereliction
willful negligence
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comparative negligence
(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
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concurrent negligence
(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately
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contributory negligence
(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
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criminal negligence, culpable negligence
(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
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neglect of duty
(law) breach of a duty
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dodging, escape, evasion
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
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nonconformance, nonconformity
failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
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betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity
a stupid mistake
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renege, revoke
the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
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default, nonpayment, nonremittal
act of failing to meet a financial obligation
