Wrongdoing vs Mistake - What's the difference?
wrongdoing | mistake |
(uncountable) Violation of standards of behavior.
(countable) An instance of doing wrong.
An error; a blunder.
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(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place
To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
* Shakespeare
* Johnson
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
As nouns the difference between wrongdoing and mistake
is that wrongdoing is (uncountable) violation of standards of behavior while mistake is an error; a blunder.As a verb mistake is
to understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.wrongdoing
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Alternative forms
* wrong-doingNoun
(en-noun)mistake
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Noun
(en noun)- After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes' were made. I notice, however, that my ' mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
Synonyms
* See alsoUsage notes
* Usually make a mistake. SeeVerb
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- My father's purposes have been mistook .
- A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
- Servants mistake , and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
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