malogro

Definitions of malogro
  1. noun
    an act that does not achieve its intended goal
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    fracaso
    an act that fails
    equivocación, error, fallo, falta, yerro
    a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
    abandono, dejadez, descuido, desidia, despreocupación, incuria, negligencia
    failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
    pérdida, quebranto
    the act of losing someone or something
    bajón, caducidad, recaída, recidiva, reincidencia, reventón
    a failure to maintain a higher state
    mancha, mácula
    an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
    confusión
    a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
    desacierto, error de cálculo, gabarro, trabacuenta
    a mistake in calculating
    distorsión, tergiversación
    the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
    lapsus, olvido
    a mistake resulting from inattention
    descuido, omisión
    a mistake resulting from neglect
    buñuelo, cagada, cantada, cante, gazapatón, gazapo, patinazo, pifia
    an embarrassing mistake
    cacao, chapucería, chapuza, follón, lío
    something badly botched or muddled
    fuera
    (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
    delincuencia
    willful negligence
    evasión
    nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
    estupidez, imbecilidad, tontería
    a stupid mistake
    type of:
    actividad humana, acto
    something that people do or cause to happen
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