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.

He knew he must turn his left cheek also—a Christian virtue which he had abundant opportunities of practising in that household; and he felt that to score off his mother for such a verbal mistake as the one she had just made would not be in keeping with the spirit of the commandment to which, no doubt, she meant to refer him.