screwup
Noun
Meaning
the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation
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Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.
It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
a typical bureaucratic screwup
No, nothing will happen to China for the same reason that no one was able to force America to properly deal with it's screwup in Iraq; it's too powerful.
"That screwup has been extremely unfair to the people of Iowa," he said.