verbal mistake

Maher said Biden's critics would likely argue that every verbal mistake is a sign that the 76-year-old Biden shouldn't become president.

And it speaks to a culture in which the fear of making a verbal mistake is consistently thwarting dialogue.

And the burst of laughter that applauded her confusion was like a full colored illustration of a verbal mistake.

Rather," said Vincent, setting him right, as if he had simply made a verbal mistake, "a most happy termination, you mean; the only thing that was left for him to do.

It is possible that an isolated band of pirates from Asia Minor may have reached Etruria, and that their adventure may have given rise to such tales; but more probably the whole story rests on a mere verbal mistake.