as in mistakenly
in a mistaken or inappropriate way
you incorrectly identified the part of speech of one of the words in the sentence
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Recent Examples of incorrectly
The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member was the first Faithful to be banished on the new season of the award-winning Peacock reality series after being incorrectly pegged as a Traitor.
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
Well, even though air-drying clothes on a drying rack has many benefits (especially for the planet), experts agree that line-drying incorrectly can start a big mold problem within and behind your walls.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
The last major round of protests came in 2022, spurred by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the theocratic government's forces for allegedly wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
An earlier story incorrectly stated her title.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Within about 30 minutes of the shooting, posts incorrectly claimed the shooter had been caught.
—Leah Willingham, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hurley shared a series of appeal letters for one service, in which the billing office acknowledged that blood work had been initially incorrectly coded as diagnostic.
—Zach Dyer, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
Also in 2024, Antczak's county board campaign was cut short after he was removed from the ballot for incorrectly filing for candidacy on partisan nomination forms when the county seats are nonpartisan.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Jan. 2026
People incorrectly assumed others in their party held extreme views about wolves, and those assumptions in turn shaped their own attitudes toward the species.
—Justin Angle, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
Well, even though air-drying clothes on a drying rack has many benefits (especially for the planet), experts agree that line-drying incorrectly can start a big mold problem within and behind your walls.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
The last major round of protests came in 2022, spurred by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the theocratic government's forces for allegedly wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
An earlier story incorrectly stated her title.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Within about 30 minutes of the shooting, posts incorrectly claimed the shooter had been caught.
—Leah Willingham, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hurley shared a series of appeal letters for one service, in which the billing office acknowledged that blood work had been initially incorrectly coded as diagnostic.
—Zach Dyer, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
Also in 2024, Antczak's county board campaign was cut short after he was removed from the ballot for incorrectly filing for candidacy on partisan nomination forms when the county seats are nonpartisan.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Jan. 2026
People incorrectly assumed others in their party held extreme views about wolves, and those assumptions in turn shaped their own attitudes toward the species.
—Justin Angle, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorrectly
Adverb
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The word edgy is often mistakenly applied to comedians whose work just reinforces conventional opinions and prejudices with extra swear words.—
John Roy,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
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After a typo last year mistakenly marked Valentine’s Day on March 14, the city decided not only to fix the error, but to embrace it.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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And huge doses of vitamin C (once erroneously thought to stave off colds) can stomach upset, diarrhoea and, in extreme cases, kidney stones.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
2 Jan. 2026
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That website erroneously shows the department spent $304,920.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
12 Dec. 2025
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For example, Apple briefly turned off an AI feature that rewrote push notifications from news apps inaccurately (it’s since been turned back on by default).—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
17 Dec. 2025
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For example, pro-Trump chatbots inaccurately attributed job growth solely to his administration, overlooking economic continuity from the Obama era.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2025
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According to a New Mexico warrant obtained and reviewed by EW, Busfield has been accused by a pair of twin actors of inappropriately touching them while on the set of the Fox crime drama The Cleaning Lady.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Jan. 2026
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Whatever the truth of that claim, the phrase is inappropriately taken from a poem that is about a horror that cannot be compared to taxation.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Incorrectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorrectly. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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