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plural missteps
A step that is wrong, a false step. quotations examples
[…] burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. He remembered only to avoid a misstep and to keep his direction.
1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers
(figurative) An error or mistake. quotations examples
Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.
2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club
third-person singular simple present missteps, present participle misstepping, simple past and past participle misstepped
(intransitive) To step badly or incorrectly. quotations examples
Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.
2012, Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Pamela Jackson, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
(intransitive) To make an error or mistake. examples