miscue
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- n a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
- n a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- The officials ignored his miscue.
- The Governor's major political miscue was to press for an overly aggressive expansion of state programs, in part so that he could brag about them on the campaign trail.
- In his only miscue, he paused to scoop up his pets, a pair of Pekingese lapdogs.