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false step

noun as in careless act

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Especially at a time like this when the cultural reflex is to vilify every false step.

In fact, in many ways the themes raised were sand traps waiting for a false step.

He was black and he has always known that one false step and he was down and out.

I repented directly the false step was taken, but, like a true Briton, I was too proud to go back.

Their genius travels over as many lines as there are lineaments in the figure, and the least false step would deform it.

Every time I made a false step, I had to devise some new “miracle” by way of counterblast.

And both he and Godfrey knew that one false step meant a death almost too horrible for words.

One false step, one blunder, would be fatal, and we have known the other members of the party to make these blunders.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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