Other Words from incorrect

incorrectly \ ˌin-kə-ˈrek(t)-lē

\ adverb

incorrectness \ ˌin-kə-ˈrek(t)-nəs

\ noun

Examples of incorrect in a Sentence

The doctor's diagnosis was incorrect. The story in the newspaper is incorrect. The restaurant considers jeans and T-shirts incorrect attire for dinner.

Recent Examples on the Web The initial vote count shown in the clip was incorrect and caused by Edison Research, a spokesperson for the company told USA TODAY in an email. — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022 Hejazi also noted that reports on social media claiming that the Chief Candy Officer will be required to eat 3,500 pieces of candy per month are incorrect. — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022 And that's not incorrect — the J-horror craze of the late '90s and early '00s, spearheaded by Hideo Nakata's instant classic Ringu (1998), did produce some of the most memorable horror films in Japanese movie history. — Katie Rife, EW.com, 30 July 2022 This is not to say that all the opponents are Republicans and that all the talking points are incorrect, only that there is a partisan sheen and a dearth of fact-checking. — Dan Gearino, ABC News, 29 July 2022 The states argued, for instance, that USDA’s interpretation of Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act in the wake of Bostock was incorrect and that its logic should not go beyond Title VII. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 July 2022 The load carrying capacity modification labels are incorrect. — Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2022 So a person like Stewart, whose last manual calculation, which Giddings admitted was incorrect, was done April 12, 2022. — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 6 July 2022 But a new paper published in the journal Current Biology argues that this is incorrect and that woodpecker heads behave more like stiff hammers than shock absorbers. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 See More

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