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adjective

Definition of erringnext
as in errant

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verb

present participle of err
1
as in stumbling
to make a mistake we badly erred when we calculated the driving distance

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2
as in trespassing
to commit an offense when we err, we must be willing to accept the consequences

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erring
  1. errant
  2. trespassing
  3. unscrupulous
  4. wandering
  5. tripping
  6. falling
  7. unprincipled
  8. improper
Adjective
  • The glass tubes are easily broken, whether by an errant toss of a ball or the corner of a box truck that backs up carelessly, and have to be replicated by hand.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024
  • An errant social media post from Trump was sufficient to move the conversation of the entire primary field, and most of the Trump-free debates still started with questions about his campaign.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of errant
Verb
  • Mortimer was charged in Palm Beach, Florida, in April 2016 with trespassing the home of ex-boyfriend Nico Fanjul, son of sugar baron Alex Fanjul.
    Diane J. Cho, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • In January Mangione pleaded no contest to trespassing at Nu’uanu Pali Lookout, a public park in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and paid a $100 fine.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of trespassing
Adjective
  • Labor advocates, meanwhile, worry about the opposite happening: Enforcement against unscrupulous employers will fall by the wayside.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Remember Daraprim, a generic medicine whose price rose overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750 because of an unscrupulous Wall Street investor.
    Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of unscrupulous
Verb
  • For the office scenes, the cast spent months at a time inside a windowless set, on a sound stage in the Bronx, wandering through a labyrinth of blinding-white Lumon hallways.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Flashbacks and montages of her girlhood and celebrity prime reveal fragments of her biography, but the movie mostly sifts through the singer’s insomniac and at times hallucinogenic hours wandering her palatial apartment and the streets of Paris to probe the mystery of Callas.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of wandering
Verb
  • Others are participating in travel trends such as dry-tripping (also known as sober curious travel) and the option to be alcohol-free during their travels.
    Ronny Maye, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The bill is named after the late star, who died in 2019 after tripping on loose cables while shooting a TV series.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of tripping
Verb
  • To qualify for relief, a reporting company must have a BOI reporting deadline falling within the period beginning one day before the date the specified disaster began - as indicated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – and ending 90 days after that date.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The fall 2024 release is 11 years old (falling on the younger end of the age range for Old Fitzgerald), meaning it was distilled in the fall of 2013 and bottled in the fall of this year.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of falling
Adjective
  • Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
  • All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of unprincipled
Adjective
  • In early November, St. Philip officials reported to the Diocese of Nashville Safe Environment Office that a teen in the parish had made a report of improper touching involving Garcia.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Defense lawyers said that speech included a series of improper and prejudicial comments against the defendants and their legal team, poisoning any potential jurors against them.
    Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of improper
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