Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard or rule; inaccuracy.
- noun That which is incorrect; an error.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being incorrect; lack of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
incorrect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of conformity to social expectations
- noun the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Any grammar incorrectness is simply because it is as things were said.
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Any grammar incorrectness is simply because it is as things were said.
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Top Gear lies in Clarkson's apparently untrammelled political incorrectness, which is as much part of his schtick as Gordon Ramsay's swearing, Graham Norton's outrageousness, or
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Top Gear lies in Clarkson's apparently untrammelled political incorrectness, which is as much part of his schtick as Gordon Ramsay's swearing, Graham Norton's outrageousness, or
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Top Gear lies in Clarkson's apparently untrammelled political incorrectness, which is as much part of his schtick as Gordon Ramsay's swearing, Graham Norton's outrageousness, or
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The "My name is Correctness, king of kings" people say that security problems are merely one manifestation of incorrectness, which is dissonance between what the program is supposed to do and what its implementation actually does.
Planet Python 2009
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Mpshe had also expressed an opinion on the "incorrectness" of
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Now, when the FM writes "political correctness", what it actually means is 'incorrectness'.
Mayibuye Editorial 1995
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How about the Chinese literally using what in essence is "slave labor" (a portion of the labor is convicted criminals, some of whom were convicted of political "incorrectness") in their larger manufacturing plants?
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How about the Chinese literally using what in essence is "slave labor" (a portion of the labor is convicted criminals, some of whom were convicted of political "incorrectness") in their larger manufacturing plants?
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