social blunder
Example Sentences
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For example, the term anxiety could evoke schemata of task failure, a parent’s harsh criticisms, losing money, a social blunder, the disruption of a satisfying relationship, or the health of a parent.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2013
On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a stunning social blunder, patients were released from public institutions and given no place to go -- no halfway houses, no local clinics, no community care.
From Time Magazine Archive
After my hug, she stepped back for a moment, and I made a pretty major social blunder.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
Stepan Trofimovitch of course was incapable of making a social blunder, and his manners were most elegant.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
