honest mistake

collocation in English

meaningsofhonestandmistake

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honest
adjective
uk
/ˈɒn.ɪst/us
/ˈɑː.nɪst/
telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk
/mɪˈsteɪk/us
/mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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(Definition ofhonestandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Those estimates may be too small, but if so, it is anhonestmistake.
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It may have been a genuine andhonestmistake.
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But they lacked the courage to admit they had made anhonestmistake.
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The point of this amendment is to protect people who have made anhonestmistakewhich did not materially affect the final result.
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Anhonestmistakeis not an issue for us.
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It was anhonestmistake, openly acknowledged and dealt with.
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I hope that subsection (5) will not catch those who are summoned and who make anhonestmistakeabout their eligibility.
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There is no shame, even for a commission, in making anhonestmistake.
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It does not act contrary if it wishes, but it may by anhonestmistakeact contrary to the law.
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I believe that in this inquiry anhonestmistakewas made.
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I do not believe that anyhonestmistakemade in good faith will lead to a prosecution.
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Initially, my constituents took the view that anhonestmistakehad occurred.
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Presumably, it would have been anhonestmistakeby the authority and there would be no suggestion of any need to back date the certificate.
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Let us suppose that anhonestmistakeis made that somehow removes the opportunity.
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I think that we should be making a very grave error if we confused anhonestmistakewith negligence.
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If we were ever to lose sight of that, men would be in danger of being sent to prison for long terms for what could have been anhonestmistake.
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It is bought and sold through paper transactions between dealers, which makes it all the more difficult to trace the point at whichhonestmistakeends and deliberate wrongdoing begins.
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I have no reason for believing that this was other than a genuine andhonestmistakeon the part of the brokers and the applicants concerned.
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But in any event what we want is that there should be an offence only if there is bad faith, and not if a doctor has made anhonestmistake.
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There are other factors of which he knows which fix the date, so it cannot possibly be said that anhonestmistakewas made by the staff.
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