noun
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A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
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A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
verb
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To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
example
to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
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To move blindly or clumsily.
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To cause to make a mistake.
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To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
Examples of blunder in a Sentence
The blunder was soon committed.
It is difficult to suppose that such a blunder was not preconcerted.
A burst of childish laughter greets my blunder, and the pantomime begins all over again.
This tactical blunder cost him his popularity and materially assisted the secret operations of the king.
I tried frantically to slip out of my blunder.
Sam could see her blunder.
This outburst of temper was a grave blunder.
The first blunder of the Hats was the hasty and ill-advised war with Russia.
This may have been a proper thing to do if their distrust of Shelburne was incurable, but the next step, coalition with Lord North against him, was not only a political blunder, but a shock to party morality, which brought speedy retribution.
To whom should I confess my blunder?
They simply wanted to find a scapegoat to blame for the recycling blunder.
The catastrophic blunder had cost years of lost research.
To avoid a marketing blunder that could alienate a portion of your target market, it's important to verify how the name you want to use translates into other languages.
Under the influence of their fear of a French naval force King Charles's ministers committed a great blunder.
They decided that the two best authorities were k and B, and that when these differed the reading of B, except when obviously an accidental blunder, was probably right.
Even the most profoundly spoken actor has a blunder every once in awhile.
The movie, while credited with turning around the cinema blunder that Joel Schumacher created, did not entirely translate into a game that could stand on its own.
However, if you have this type of blunder, know that it's not a big deal and it happens.
A late Queens ' goal following a Jesus defensive blunder spoilt what was a very good afternoon for Jesus.
Up percent last guard OJ period bennett wired becquerel's big blunder.
Define more carefully than Locke did, with his blunder about "ideas," the process of perception, and you cut up scepticism by the roots !
On the Roman Catholic side the employment of compulsion against heretics has never been acknowledged as a blunder; and this method of silencing opposition has found champions in the bosom of the Church down to the most recent years.
From the first they meditated a national rising, but their ignorance, enthusiasm and simplicity led them to commit blunder after blunder.
But this error in an astrological detail would not warrant us in assigning to the poet the blunder about Jacob and Laban in the same tale (see above).
Elected king of Denmark and Norway, he suc ceeded in subduing Sweden by force of arms; but he spoiled everything at the culmination of his triumph by the hideous crime and blunder known as the Stockholm massacre, which converted the politically divergent Swedish nation into the irreconcilable foe of the unional government (see Christian Ii.).
The chiefs who had planned to hurl the famished warrior host upon the colony had committed an incredible blunder in neglecting to call the nation together under pretext of witnessing the resurrection.
The layout of a tile floor can make the difference between a professional looking job and an obvious DIY blunder.
Yet it was not the king who benefited by this blunder.
But the first blunder, that of forming a general hypothetical conception of Rabelais and then adjusting interpretation of the work to it, is the commoner.
Unfortunately his successor, Louis VII., almost destroyed his work by a colossal blunder, although circumstances seemed much in his favor.
The dictionary definition of a blunder is "a gross mistake."
Still they paid for this monumental blunder in the biggest fashion, beaten by a VERY poor Portugal on penalties.
No greater tactical blunder in principle could have been committed by the party under these conditions.
In 1500 Louis made the blunder of calling Ferdinand the Catholic to help him in the conquest of Naples.
If the principle of the universe is impersonal or unconscious, personal consciousness in finite spirits comes to wear the appearance of a blunder.
He threw himself into the party which looked to Monmouth as the representative of Protestant interests, a grave political blunder, though he afterwards was in confidential communication with Orange.
At this stage the Yugoslav delegation committed a grave tactical blunder, * Trumbic's views being overridden by the Balkan imperialistic aims of Pasic., While pleading for a plebiscite against Italy and doing lip service to an independent Albania within the frontiers of 1913, it added that in the event of any revision of those frontiers Yugoslavia would claim Skutari and all territory north of the river Drin (Drim).
At this point began the second great attachment of his life, his unfortunate infatuation for Madame Recamier, under whose influence he committed the worst blunder of his political career.
Hellanicus a generation later repeats this blunder, and identifies this Argive and Arcadian Pelasgus with the Thessalian Pelasgus of Hecataeus.
Many have thought Melito's work, 7rfpli ivo'wpArov 6Ea, must have been a treatise on the Incarnation; but it is hard to think that Origen could blunder so.
A computer ' flag ' is attached to each amended blunder and a cumulative record maintained for each participant.
You'll likely wind up having to go out and move your cars once faculty discovers the blunder, but the prank can be quite humorous in the meantime.
What her Super Bowl blunder didn't do to her reputation, her personal life antics did.
To avoid this budget blunder in the future, take advantage of the many gas price comparison Web sites available online.
Some "boy cut" or bicycle-short style cheer underwear has the opposite problem of the bloomers - that is, the squared-off legs show under the hem of skirt, which again can be a bit of a stylistic blunder in terms of cheer.
In any case the decision taken in 1521 was a blunder.
Such a ministry could not afford to make a single blunder.
Abruptly Graham realized the enormity of his blunder in coming to the Council House.
In round 9, I won a pawn against the fifteen year-old Indian girl, only to blunder it back.
But even in this crowning triumph the cramping egotism of his nature - a mental vice which now grew on him rapidly - fatally narrowed his outlook and led him to commit an irretrievable blunder.