Blow it

Usage examples of screwup.

Things had not been going at all well for the Wolfes lately, and this particular meeting had the potential for a really major screwup.

But in light of the screwups in their investigation thus far-including two sabotaged lie detectors-he no longer trusted them any more than he trusted Bennell or the other scientists, He had to do it himself.

His voice became harsh and controlled, the kind of voice a noncorn uses when he reads out a total screwup.

Maybe they didn't have enough doctors to fix all the screwups, but, even in the growing hills, the curves were properly banked and the shoulders gave you enough bailout room in case somebody got seriously confused with left and right.

He was familiar from long experience with monumental screwups, but this one took the grand prize.

He had his own massive list of screwups that he could detail, starting with the Diess Expeditionary Force.

If there are any screwups on this one, any screwups in procedure, in chain of evidence, if somebody fucking sneezes at the wrong time, I will personally put their neck in a wringer and hit go.

They blame us, you know, same as you cops get blamed, for their own screwups and failings.

His emphasis supplied the undertext, This had better not be the sort of screwup it looks like.

I got the impression that he'd been thinking of me as some sort of avenging monster who vaped people for screwups.