How to Use erroneous in a Sentence

erroneous

adjective

• There were erroneous reports all over the place that day.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
• The good news is the vast majority of these were erroneous.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• When scanned, the erroneous tickets do show the correct prize amount won.
  — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
• And why did the media repeat his erroneous data over and over?
  — David Zweig, New Republic, 16 May 2017
• Little erroneous details kept pulling me out of the story.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• The recording then provides a phone number for the victim to call to return the erroneous refund.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity, 13 Feb. 2018
• Many people still think that exercise will wear out the knee faster, but this is proven to be erroneous.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 July 2023
• Some of those loans may contain erroneous payment counts without any clear sense of how they will be fixed.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2022
• Not a single member of the home crowd can rest easy, given the erroneous history of their beloved team.
  — SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Which is not to say that like judgment is completely erroneous.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• Worst of all is that the Inquirer was forced to correct the same erroneous assertion less than a year and a half ago.
  — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
• That can lead to erroneous assumptions and bad judgment.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2022
• Bass attributed the erroneous filings to a former staffer.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Abe's account replied with the same message to the correct Trump message at the same time the erroneous quote tweet was posted.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 June 2018
• The notion that there’s a huge difference between the two runners is erroneous.
  — cleveland, 14 Nov. 2020
• Did council correct the erroneous statement about the county owning the hotel?
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 29 June 2020
• When the erroneous Facebook posts went viral, Palley was forced to comment on the posts to try to set the record straight.
  — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2020
• Given the number of erroneous beliefs about wine that persist, this could have been an epic feast lasting for weeks.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• The combination of grand assertion and erroneous facts is typical of the man.
  — The Economist, 23 July 2019
• Goldstein remained vocal about his belief that the results were erroneous and was fired a few weeks later.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• The false alert appeared to be the result of erroneous computer coding that mislabeled a test as the real thing.
  — Alyson Ward, Nick Powell and Robert Downen, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Feb. 2018
• Don’t trot out the tired and often erroneous excuse about the Chargers being unlucky.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• The erroneous scores were for people applying for auto loans, credit cards and mortgages at lenders big and small.
  — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• Many of the assumptions actuaries used proved to be erroneous.
  — Elliot Raphaelson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Lehigh County sent out an erroneous email telling people who had already voted that their ballots were on the way.
  — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2020
• The suggestion that this process is being stalled is completely erroneous.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• Officers were there because of an erroneous report of tires being slashed there, too.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2018
• These erroneous comparisons exist for the sole purpose of derailment from taking the fight to white supremacy.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 31 Aug. 2017
• Police had been responding to a call about an assault and at least one erroneous report about an active shooter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• The order came in response to a decision by Twitter the same week to mark two of his erroneous tweets with fact-checking labels.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024