(v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
(v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
(v. t.) To cause to blunder.
(v. t.) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
(n.) Confusion; disturbance.
(n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
(2) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
(3) But it is not clear whether that will be enough to save McChrystal's job after what is the latest of a series of political blunders.
(4) Anthony King is professor of government at Essex University and co-author with Ivor Crewe of The Blunders of Our Governments, to be published next week
(5) From millions of BBC words, blunders and scandals are relatively few.
(6) That should mean, among other changes from Monday’s win at Hull , that Danny Welbeck returns up front even if Olivier Giroud relocated the net after a couple of months blundering about in the dark.
(7) But after David de Gea's blunder allowed Phil Bardsley's 119th-minute shot to slip in, Javier Hernández grabbed a lifeline with a strike seconds later to take the tie into the shootout.
(8) Blunders by hospital staff which leave newborn babies brain-damaged in the first few days of their lives are set to cost the NHS more than £235m, official figures reveal.
(9) A horrendous blunder by Mertesacker presents the ball to Aluko, who goes around Fabianksi.
(10) Results indicated an effect of sex identification; the male blunderer was derogated most by male subjects (n = 34) and the female most by female subjects (n = 34).
(11) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(12) They've conceded only one goal due to a goalie blunder (against admittedly limited opposition) and not lost.
(13) "In a post-Fukushima environment where nuclear planning is being halted in Germany and Japan it seems bizarre that the (UK) government is blundering ahead with disposing of nuclear waste in the most absurdly inappropriate place," she said.
(14) The plot of Emma turns on Frank Churchill's "blunder" in mentioning the likelihood of Mr Perry, the local apothecary, "setting up his carriage".
(15) A brief inquest a year later did not expose the hospital's blunder.
(16) The sport’s global governing body has admitted that Joubert blundered by awarding the Wallabies the last-gasp penalty that Bernard Foley kicked to seize a 35-34 victory at Twickenham on Sunday, robbing Scotland of a place in the World Cup semi-finals.
(17) Inevitably the commentators (and so far in my researches, they were all women) pondered on Lawson's motivation, and whether this decision was a style blunder, a "betrayal of her own brand", or a defiant and admirable insistence on privacy for her body.
(18) It's hard to watch these executions and not realise that these blunders are bound to happen,” he said.
(19) In a front-page comment piece, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote: "Instead of hushing up the blunder, [gag orders] merely shine a spotlight on it.
(20) He’s not in power yet, so he still gets to blunder around lobbing out daft policies willy-nilly in the hope that one of them will scan.
Err
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
(v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
(v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
(v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
(v. i.) To offend, as by erring.
Example Sentences:
(1) But isn't it better to err on the side of caution and start emoting more?
(2) We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed."
(3) A given diver was reasonably consistent in the direction of his error from one trial to another and from one maneuver to another, although about half the divers tended to err to the right and half to the left.
(4) Antony Altbeker, author of Fruit of a Poisoned Tree, about a miscarriage of justice, said: "Society should err on the side of giving bail to the accused.
(5) But O'Cathain and colleagues say it is perhaps inevitable that call handlers without medical training will err on the side of caution and send people to seek emergency care.
(6) "Err on the side of the [New York] Times, not xoJane ."
(7) All submammalian vertebrates have extraretinal photoreceptors (ERR) that can mediate entrainment of circadian rhythms to 24-h light-dark (LD) cycles.
(8) So this review of the Keynote news will err on the side of optimism.
(9) When localizing tones, however, the barn owl errs in a manner that suggests that it is confused by phantom targets.
(10) to rats for 5 days, indole-3-carbinol was a potent inducer of hepatic ERR deethylation and cytochrome P-450 activity, but had much less effect in the intestine.
(11) The PRC for ONX lizards (only ERRs present) shows a threefold increase in the amplitude of both the advance and delay portions of the PRC compared with a PRC previously generated for sighted S. occidentalis.
(12) This synchronizing system is functionally coupled with the olfactory generator of electrographic respiratory response (ERR), which is brought into activity by nasal air flow.
(13) Thus, immunosuppressive regimens used in cardiac transplant programs tend to err (if they err) on the side of heavier suppression and accept the consequences of this choice.
(14) Unexpectedly, the majority of in vivo ermA transcripts detected were only 245 nt long, suggesting that expression of ErR may be regulated post-transcriptionally.
(15) Humans consistently err in their percepts of rotational motion viewed through an aperture.
(16) While both adults and children err on the 'place of articulation' feature most often, and 'nasality' least often, children produce 'voicing' feature errors less often than adults do, indicating that voicing may be a more important organizing principle for young children than for adults.
(17) "Err no, every right thinking person wants their own team to win, not the best team to win, weirdo.
(18) In my judgment, the Court errs egregiously by overriding Congress’ decision.
(19) Scanning electron microscopy morphometric analysis found major evidence of ERR in the tooth-borne jackscrew appliance, in the long-term group, in the maxillary premolars, on the buccal and furcation root surfaces, on the mesiobuccal root, and in the apical zone.
(20) Concomitantly with splenomegaly, ERR gene expression in spleen cells increases dramatically.