mistackle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.
verb
To attempt to deal with (a problem) in the wrong way.
Example Sentences
- "If the attacker tricks the defender into going for the tackle and she mistackles the ball, the attacker will most likely be in an advantageous position for a clear shot at the goal."
- "If, for some reason, he mistackled the ball, you could be sure that the man was going to stay there and be planted square on his ass."
- "However, consider the dramatic and very public case of the highly skilled international footballer, Eduardo da Silva of The Arsenal — who suffered a compound fibula fracture to his left leg and a dislocated ankle with medial ligament damage in Febrary 2008 when brutally mistackled in the away game at Birmingham City."
- "And, in what may seem a fusion of the previous two mistackling incidents, there was a third embarrassing episode."
- "The two thought the agreement had mistackled the shari'a by referring it to the proposed constitutional conference."
- "[…] mistackled while others are neither properly grasped nor tackled at all."