mismaneuver

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A maneuver that does not go as intended.

   • The second is the probability of a mismaneuver in the face of an impending accident.
   • After two and a half years of political mismaneuvers, military bungling, expenditures estimated at 158 million dollars, and the death of twenty thousand men, Sheffey's prognosis was beginning to sound prophetic.
3. 3

   The act of mismaneuvering.

   • Through political maneuver (or mismaneuver) the act, in its full civil rights thrust, was joined to outlaw both race and sex discrimination in its coverage, but only in its title in regards to employment.
   • The frequency of a ship collision with a fixed object or a ship depends on the hypothetical frequency of ship collision with fixed autopilots and the probability of mismaneuver.

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