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Meanings of incorrectness in English

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incorrecció

The quality of not conforming to fact or truth.

incorrecció

The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.

Usage of incorrectness in English
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Now, one fact will suffice to show the incorrectness of this notion.
The Life of Francis Marion
2
Like, genetic engineering or systematic cruelty to animals or political incorrectness?
After dark
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But what is this to the correctness or incorrectness of Mr Mill's accounts?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
4
Perhaps, too, they paid a price for incurable political incorrectness.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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Then he slips effortlessly into self-deprecation, political incorrectness and convoluted examinations of nursery rhymes.
Reuters
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Perhaps the idea was to discuss Mr Bond's political incorrectness on the question of woman?
The Irish Times
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We hope that the foregoing pages are sufficient to demonstrate the incorrectness of this assertion.
An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching
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And also, without acknowledging the incorrectness of your admonition, or the impropriety of your charges.
A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation / In Reply ...
9
Scarcely any of these later poems are free from grammatical incorrectness or ambiguity of expression.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
10
Gray-haired and thirty years with the department, his language and his political incorrectness was grandfathered in.
A killing night
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Everyone was trying to do irony and incorrectness, but without his brilliance it just looked smug.
The Guardian
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No other item was added, but her report on these was almost illusional in its incorrectness.
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
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He thought it was more important to make a statement about the political incorrectness of the event.
Coming out
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The following official report of Major Mitchell will sufficiently point out the incorrectness of the preceding statement.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
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But we are led away by a certain incorrectness of terms in a discussion like the present.
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations / Also, Treatises On The Nature O...
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The incorrectness of supposing that the so-called energy of a man is of that nature, is remarkable.
Applied Eugenics
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Incorrectness through the time