commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
utter impulsively
an embarrassing mistake
make one's way clumsily or blindly
a misconception resulting from incorrect information
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
inadvertent incorrectness
part of a statement that is not correct
departure from what is ethically acceptable
(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
