What's the difference between misadventure and mishap?

Misadventure


Definition:

  • (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
  • (2) The addition of epidemiologic analysis of risk factors for therapeutic misadventure (iatrogenic and self-induced) and for health status specific long- and short-term adverse drug experience will contribute substantially to drug safety in the elderly.
  • (3) Studies conducted in the United States during the past two decades related to drug misadventuring have been inadequate.
  • (4) Sloane Crosley's books, although different in tone to those of Gould and Daum – she self-mockingly writes of her own comic misadventures in a manner heavily influenced by David Sedaris – share a similar aspiration.
  • (5) Is the song Mile High about narcotic misadventures or misdemeanours on an aircraft?
  • (6) An original MoD inquest was held in secret in 1953 and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
  • (7) This study seeks to increase awareness of poison center ability to assist in management of the "therapeutic misadventure".
  • (8) Mechanism of injury included knife or arrow penetrations (25), firearm wounds (12), falls (17), overexertion (5), and misadventures with hazards (40).
  • (9) Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury.
  • (10) Twenty-eight ovaries from normal children of the same age who died from misadventure served as control.
  • (11) Some local cases are cited to illustrate the difference between misadventure and negligence.
  • (12) Drug misadventuring is defined, applicable public policy issues are identified and analyzed, and recommendations are suggested for reducing the magnitude and scope of drug misadventuring.
  • (13) The patient's family supposed neglection and therapeutic misadventure and raised an objection to the medical treatment.
  • (14) In England and Wales, 13% of maternal deaths were related to anaesthetic misadventures, but the Japanese incidence is not known.
  • (15) It appears that post-prostatectomy incontinence is not always due to a surgical misadventure.
  • (16) Yet by claiming the intervention was mostly about rooting out terrorists, Cameron also ignores or misunderstands, and certainly diminishes, the few, possibly temporary nation-building achievements Britain can point to during its latest, sorry misadventure in Afghanistan.
  • (17) Therapeutic misadventures with both drugs have resulted in childhood fatalities.
  • (18) The probable causes of these deaths include prenatal physiological handicaps resulting from placental insufficiency, aberrant parent-offspring behaviour, management-induced mismothering, misadventure, inadequate milk supply or teat and udder abnormalities, and cold-induced starvation.
  • (19) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
  • (20) But it did not take a Gray diary - although a particularly brilliant one, Fat Chance (1995), did eventually materialise - for the off-stage shenanigans and misadventures surrounding Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates, to make the front pages.

Mishap


Definition:

  • (n.) Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
  • (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.