blunder : 大失敗、重大ミス、a serious mistake

blunder

大失敗、重大ミス、a serious mistake

synonyms

• error, bobble, boo-boo, brick, clinker, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip

一般例文

• I made a blunder by getting his name wrong.
• He said that the tax was a major political blunder.

英字新聞からの例文

• 引用元 : Financial Times (by Alistair Gray) - MetLife failed to make pension payments to about 13,500 people (2018/02)

  Steven Kandarian, chief executive and chairman, said the blunder was “unacceptable and deeply disappointing”.

• 引用元 : New York Times (by KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA) - Days After Hawaii’s False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (2018/01)

  That blunder was blamed on a veteran employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency who had sent the missile alert to cellphones across the state by picking the wrong option on his computer ...