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Synonyms for false step


Grammar : Noun



Définition of false step

  • noun careless act
Example sentences :
  • If her memory should fail, or if she should make a false step, he would not hesitate to push her.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • You have pleaded your youth as an excuse for your first 'false step,' as you call it.
  • Extract from : « Victor's Triumph » by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
  • One false step and you are over a precipice, or up to your neck in a slough.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Dubois felt that he had taken a false step, and remained silent.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • He had taken one false step, and he had been held inexorably to his contract.
  • Extract from : « The Doctor of Pimlico » by William Le Queux
  • A false step, a slip might lame me, and so stop me altogether.
  • Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • From the chair business in 1853 to congress was the first false step.
  • Extract from : « The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) » by Various
  • As this log had caught a score of others, so one false step leads to more.
  • Extract from : « Down The River » by Oliver Optic
  • "I made a false step there; but it was just like me to bungle," continued Gaston.
  • Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
  • Yes, yes, I see; a false step just now would put them on their guard.
  • Extract from : « Caught In The Net » by Emile Gaboriau

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