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• n  the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation
  a typical bureaucratic screwup

• He was not only the baby, but also the screwup cheating on his Spanish test in college, boozing and womanizing well beyond the requisite Kennedy-legacy level, and then .
• The Kandahar screwup adds considerable pressure to Obama's decision about whether to double-down on a war he has called crucial to America's national security.
• Reyes says the interview was a "screwup.

News & Articles

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• KTVU anchor apologizes for bogus crew names in crash story
  The television news anchor who misreported the names of the four pilots who were aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crash-landed last week in San Francisco apologized Saturday for the screwup.
  July 13, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Andy Pettitte in Seattle Times
  That was my screwup,Pettitte said. "I thought we had a pickoff play going with Richie and there was a serious miscommunication there."
• Chris Phillips in ESPN
  I felt bad, obviously a mistake, not something I was trying to do, that's for sure,Phillips said. "We had a great 10 minutes or so in the second period until my screwup seemed to take a lot of the momentum away."
• Jeff Burton in abc11tv.com
  It's my opinion what happened to the 24 is just a screwup,Burton said. "The part was beat up pretty badly. It wasn't machined to work that way. It was seen by me as an honest mistake. From what I've seen, it wasn't a performance advantage....