mismaneuver
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.
Example Sentences
- "Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven ."
- "Mr. Frank prematurely ended his sad and spotty career in a Rocky Mountain ravine, smashed inside the stolen car he'd drunkenly mismaneuvered around a cliff curve."
- "Victory eludes me, I must have misjudged or mismaneuvered."
- "During the race on the Hudson, Vanderbilt in his excitement seized the wheel from the pilot and mismaneuvered his vessel, while Law, out of fuel, hurled furniture and costly fittings into the furnaces and so sailed on to win."
- "The second is the probability of a mismaneuver in the face of an impending accident."
- "Or the so-called foolproof airplane that is so control-limited and inherently stable that it obviously "wants" to fly and will work itself out of any stall, mismaneuver or spin anyone puts it into — in the process settling itself back on a comfortable and even keel?"