misnegotiate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain); to misstep or stumble when trying to avoid (obstacles).
Example Sentences
- "If they missed seeing one, or if they misnegotiated their path around another, we would be bounced roughly into the air."
- "Back in 1913 for instance, a driver named Jack Tower misnegotiated the southwest, and overturned in the south chute after exiting the turn."
- "She risked looking back just as she reached the porch, and she tripped and fell, not because she had misnegotiated her footing, but because she was shocked at what Shawn was doing."
- "While returning home from Haskell, John drove upon his friend, Wilda Medford, who had misnegotiated Red Hill and his car had overturned."
- "Mims giggled as, upon their arrival home, her high heels misnegotiated the threshold and she tripped."
- "Although the protagonists of his films often misnegotiate risk, putting themselves recklessly in the path of psychotic killers, Argento navigates the professionally dangerous waters of genre cinema with elegance and intelligence."