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Synonyms for flub
Synonyms: Verb
blow, bobble, boggle, bollix (up), boot, botch, bugger (up), bumble, bungle, butcher, dub, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mangle, mess (up), muck up, muff, murder, screw up
Synonyms: Noun
blunder, bobble, boo-boo, boob [British], brick, clanger [British], clinker, error, fault, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip
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Examples of flub in a Sentence
Verb
The ball went right to him but he flubbed the catch. The actress flubbed several lines.Noun
when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it
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That came around the time of public comments by chair John Williams, which raised expectations of an aggressive rate cut by the Federal Reserve, and were seen as flubbed by critics. — Alan Murray, Fortune, "The Dark Side of Customer Service: CEO Daily," 5 Aug. 2019 Sanders flubbed one of his regular talking points — that three people have more wealth than the bottom half of the nation. — NBC News, "Fact check: Do 3 people own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent of America?," 31 July 2019 Reed flubbed his next attempt, leaving the ball in the rough. — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, "Patrick Reed on his club-snapping outburst: ‘I got my anger out’," 15 June 2019 Washington totally flubbed that one during the health-care debate. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "Welcome to the Machine," 26 July 2019 Los Angeles filmmaker Tom Colbert, who was working on a documentary about Rackstraw and has sued the FBI for records of the case, contends the bureau flubbed its 48-year investigation. — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, "D.B. Cooper or not? A man who was portrayed as the infamous skyjacker dies in San Diego," 11 July 2019 The animated blooper reels at the end of Pixar’s early films show the characters as actors making the movie, and feature them flubbing lines, bursting out laughing or in candid off-camera moments. — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, "‘Toy Story 2’: See the suggestive scene that’s been deleted," 3 July 2019 The animated blooper reels at the end of Pixar's early films show the characters as actors making the movie, and feature them flubbing lines, bursting out laughing or in candid off-camera moments. — Rob Picheta, CNN, "Disney cuts 'Toy Story 2' casting couch scene," 3 July 2019 Kufrin sent Amabile and six other guys home on the premiere after Amabile flubbed his introduction. — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, "'The Bachelorette' star Becca Kufrin visits Chicago, reunites with eliminated contestant," 3 June 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
John Travolta mistook Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift when handing over the award for ‘Video of the Year.’ -- pic.twitter.com/z8MsJtcp1V Check out reactions to Travolta's flub below. — Stephen Daw, Billboard, "John Travolta Handed the VOTY Award to the Wrong Taylor Swift at the VMAs and Yep, There's Video," 26 Aug. 2019 More importantly — after last year’s struggles — there were no flubs. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Aztecs Fan Fest scrimmage: Offense ahead of the defense — for once," 17 Aug. 2019 Devers got more serious about his pre-game defensive work after that flub in Chicago, working with coaches Carlos Febles and Ramon Vazquez on his timing on grounders, when to charge, and when to take a step back. — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, "Selected or not, Rafael Devers is a star for Red Sox," 6 July 2019 What caused an apparent major flub in the negotiation process could be a fundamental mismatch in the negotiation tactics and strategies of the two national governments. — Erik Sherman, Fortune, "The U.S. May Have Snubbed a Critical Dealmaker in China Trade Talks," 17 June 2019 But these flubs are soon forgotten amid the narrative verve. — Stephen Phillips | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, "‘Deep River’ runs through Finnish American experience in the Pacific Northwest," 30 June 2019 Samsung famously had a high-profile flub with its nearly $2,000 Galaxy Fold. — Ahiza Garcia, CNN, "Why it's so hard to make a foldable smartphone," 26 June 2019 Roberts’s flub echoed Wolf’s blunder in misinterpreting a key term from Victorian England. — Karin Wulf, Twin Cities, "Karin Wulf: What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts teach us about the need for historians," 13 June 2019 But like many scientific flubs, the failure revealed a solution to a completely different problem. — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, "An Advance in Bioengineering Could Pave the Way for Tomorrow’s Superplants," 12 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'flub.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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