misnegotiate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain)

   To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain); to misstep or stumble when trying to avoid (obstacles).

   • 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.
2. 2

   To cope with or handle badly.

   • 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.
   • Aspects of the gross or gross-reflecting state itself become compromised, misnegotiated, misnavigated, and misdigested, hobbling the state in various ways.
   • Thus, as a snapshot of a cultural moment, the controversy resulting from Ciegossordomudos's videos figures as a lesson in national identity and on how cultural codes are misnegotiated in contemporary Colombian society.
3. 3

   To argue or represent one's position badly when coming to an agreement.

   • He feels straight fees can be so seriously misnegotiated that profitability does not necessarily follow.
   • And this misnegotiated agreement contained what in my view were greatly inflated claims by BookCrafters.
   • It's worth it, because your agent can easily get you more than 10 percent more than you would have gotten yourself, and you won't have a nagging feeling that you misnegotiated your deal.

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