(n.) An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1 Sort out Aitor Karanka’s future Boro’s manager was placed on gardening leave , missing a defeat at Charlton, following a well documented contretemps with his players in March.
(2) But she also retweeted a number of comments from others critical of Jonze as word of the uneasy live contretemps spread across Twitter.
(3) He said that when they first had a contretemps while Wilson was sitting in his police car and Brown was standing beside it in the street, “I reached out of the window, and I felt the immense power that he had.
(4) In 1998 he announced he had “retired from politics”, and in 2002, after various shenanigans, including $35,000 in civil damages for a contretemps with a woman at an airport and a little matter of crack cocaine and marijuana found in his car, he was for once unsuccessful in an election to the council.
(5) It would be a shame if her nuanced work in that film were overshadowed by her contretemps with its director.
(6) April 12, 2016 The contretemps comes less than a week before Wyoming holds its state convention.
(7) Witness the contretemps between the Home Office and Education over Birmingham schools , in which the principal department concerned with relations between central and local government, the Department for Communities and Local Government, played no role whatsoever.
(8) But, thanks to Townsend's tweets documenting every step of the contretemps, he found himself being derided online before he had even disembarked from the train.
(9) A spokeswoman for Carly Fiorina used the contretemps to take another shot at Trump, who has frequently sparred with the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive.
(10) His ill-tempered contretemps with the Jewish Evening Standard reporter he likened to a "concentration-camp guard" .
(11) The path running around the grounds of the Imperial Palace, however, is the scene of the occasional contretemps involving pedestrians and the hordes of joggers.
(v. i.) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) These mishaps accounted for 28 casualties: 14 fatalities and 14 injuries.
(2) Fifty-seven percent of riders were wearing helmets during the mishap.
(3) During the first month of the study, in a physician's office, ECG-monitored treadmill testing was conducted without mishap in 175 patients (age range, 60--89 years).
(4) Programs with the ability to fly under instrument flight rules (IFR) at the pilots discretion had no mishaps (P = .044) during the study period.
(5) A detailed account of the method used during the investigation of two mishaps is provided.
(6) Eighty-six mishaps were reported in the first period, the majority of which were because of human error (80.3%); the most common were the transmission of gases and vapours and errors in drug administration.
(7) But learning how to ski in backcountry takes years, and can involve a lot of swearing and slapstick mishap.
(8) This paper outlines the properties of freon that make it dangerous in the aviation community, some case histories of freon-related mishaps, what the Navy has done to control or prevent the problem from recurring, and the Navy's relative success with its prevention policies.
(9) Their sonic mishap provides us a glimpse into the popular understanding of racism and reveals how far we still have to go in order to reach an adequate starting point.
(10) As we all remember, Shell’s mishaps in 2012 culminated with its drilling rig running aground.
(11) He promised to find out "what was responsible - then who" for the mishaps over foreign prisoners and attempts to deport illegal immigrants - the other flashpoint of the grilling.
(12) The old Manchester City, who had stumbled through 30 years of mishaps since their excellent 1970s, might have been expected to flap at such a moment of triumph.
(13) They are also able to engage in community activities without the fear that a mishap will occur when not under the vigilance of the immediate family.
(14) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(15) The one death was associated with a technical mishap shortly after completion of the experiment.
(16) Such environmental health protection should not be just a safety valve to "let off steam" if planning had been based on miscalculations and false appraisals--it should function in advance to prevent such social and political mishaps.
(17) Mishaps related to endotracheal intubation can lead to barotrauma such as inadvertent intubation of the right mainstem bronchus.
(18) All the cases resulted from gynecological and obstetric mishaps.
(19) In this study, 45 2-year-olds were observed during 2 mishaps: a doll breaking and juice spilling.
(20) When it is disproportionate punishment for a mishap, gaffe, peccadillo or insensitive remark, it is crude accountability.