Flub

/flʌb/

Synonyms for "flub" (112 found)

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This flub still haunts me today.

Source: tatoeba (11648871)

1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111, I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.

Source: wiktionary

A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.

Source: wiktionary

The pressure public speaking puts on a person will occasionally cause these little flubs, so don′t panic when they happen to you. The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.

Source: wiktionary

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