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
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
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
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
This constitutes a social blunder, after the commission of which he could never again, in polite society, be considered quite a gentleman.
From Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises by Stewart, Donald Ogden
