mismaneuver

To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.

Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .

Mr. Frank prematurely ended his sad and spotty career in a Rocky Mountain ravine, smashed inside the stolen car he'd drunkenly mismaneuvered around a cliff curve.

A maneuver that does not go as intended.

The second is the probability of a mismaneuver in the face of an impending accident.

Or the so-called foolproof airplane that is so control-limited and inherently stable that it obviously "wants" to fly and will work itself out of any stall, mismaneuver or spin anyone puts it into — in the process settling itself back on a comfortable and even keel?

The act of mismaneuvering.

Through political maneuver (or mismaneuver) the act, in its full civil rights thrust, was joined to outlaw both race and sex discrimination in its coverage, but only in its title in regards to employment.

The frequency of a ship collision with a fixed object or a ship depends on the hypothetical frequency of ship collision with fixed autopilots and the probability of mismaneuver.