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Incorrect   /ɪnkərˈɛkt/   Listen
Incorrect

adjective
1.
Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.  Synonym: wrong.  "The report in the paper is wrong" , "Your information is wrong" , "The clock showed the wrong time" , "Found themselves on the wrong road" , "Based on the wrong assumptions"
2.
Not in accord with established usage or procedure.  Synonym: wrong.  "The wrong way to shuck clams" , "It is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
3.
(of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles.
4.
Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.  Synonyms: faulty, wrong.  "An incorrect transcription" , "The wrong side of the road"



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"Incorrect" Quotes from Famous Books



... slightest. He never mastered 'deep' (or inflected) Romani, and even his broken gypsy is a curious Borrovian variety, distinct from the idiom of the tents. No gypsy ever uses chal or engro as a separate word, or talks of the dukkering dook or of penning a dukkerin. His genders are perversely incorrect, as in the title of the present book; and his 'Romano Lavo-Lil: Word Book of the Romany or English Gypsy Language' probably contains more 'howlers' than any other vocabulary in the world. He is responsible for the creation of ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... to the Facts, oftener those which, being so related, are a step beyond the legitimate inferences which the Facts authorize, though in the same direction. This results in the establishment of Laws or Principles as true, which are by no means proven, many of which are subsequently found to be incorrect. It is to this operation of the Hypothetical Method that Professor Whewell, who does not discriminate the two, refers when he describes the defect in the physical speculations of the Greek philosophers to have been, 'that though they had in their possession ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... how little valued in the World. My Experience has convinced me, that 'tis more troublesome and teazing than to write and invent at once. The Idiom of the Language out of which one translates, runs so in the Head, that 'tis next to impossible not to fall frequently into it. And the more bald and incorrect the Stile of the Original is, the more shall that of the Translation be so too. Many of the Quotations in this Book are drawn from Priests, Monks, Friars, and Civil Lawyers, who minded more, in those barbarous Ages, the Substance than the Stile of their Writings: And I hope ...
— Franco-Gallia • Francis Hotoman

... entrance them. "The mines are Baird's, you know—Sir Milne Baird; it's a Glasgow firm...." "Mhm," said Mr. Philip, "I know who you mean." Detestable, thought Yaverland, this Scotch locution which implies that one has made a vague or incorrect description which only the phenomenal intelligence of one's listener has enabled him to penetrate, but he set himself suavely enough to describe the instability of Spanish labour, its disposition to call strikes that were ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West

... a false move, a wrong gesture, is at once indelibly registered on the film, to reappear greatly magnified. And though sometimes the incorrect part of the film can be cut ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope


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