Misdrive

"Misdrive" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Nightly it blazed, and waved its fiery tail, And made the dreaded Ursa Major quail; Destined but once before her fear to prove, When Phaeton the Solar car misdrove.

It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no matter how heinous, a complete accident. A drunk driver who crashes a car into someone can now apologise for miscounting his alcohol intake before going on to misdrive into someone he mistook for a road.

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