adjective

• 1Not in accordance with fact; wrong.

  ‘the doctor gave you incorrect advice’

  More example sentences

  • ‘But the reporter did have some of her data incorrect and drew some wrong conclusions.’
  • ‘Women are expected to defer to men even when male views are seen as wrong or incorrect.’
  • ‘They are dishonest, misleading, factually incorrect, selective with data and paranoid.’
  • ‘Hopefully they all now realise that your headline was wrong and that you had used an incorrect figure.’
  • ‘People abroad have a wildly incorrect idea of what we are actually about over here.’
  • ‘Even if it exists, in many cases it is either out of print, very hard to get, poorly written or incorrect and misleading.’
  • ‘It would be false and incorrect to state in your book that I have not responded to your questions.’
  • ‘By quoting a different reference, Russell is wrong in stating that our core assertion is incorrect.’
  • ‘Kelvin was eventually shown to have been wrong because his assumptions were incorrect.’
  • ‘The member was short on facts, poor on analysis, and incorrect with regard to deductions.’
  • ‘Repeating something as a fact, and which is factually incorrect, does not make it a fact.’
  • ‘In my view, it would be illogical and incorrect to describe these two buildings as a house.’
  • ‘Our conclusion was that these were incorrect, grossly distorted and thus misleading.’
  • ‘The book is often mistaken in its views and incorrect in the supposedly factual information it contains.’
  • ‘Since the whole of the Soviet Empire was involved in the war, it would be incorrect to describe all of those involved as Russian.’
  • ‘I suggest he check his sources - common sense should make him realise his claim is totally incorrect.’
  • ‘The official admitted the paper had been given incorrect information.’
  • ‘However, to imply that it is the result of Scottish musicians being reluctant to move to London is incorrect.’
  • ‘Police officer has pleaded guilty to giving incorrect information on his child support agency forms.’
  • ‘‘Most of it has turned out to be incorrect,’ a diplomat at the IAEA with detailed knowledge of the agency's investigations said.’

  Synonyms

  wrong, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target

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• 2Not in accordance with particular standards or rules.

  ‘strictly speaking, the form of address was incorrect’

  More example sentences

  • ‘However, that is just my gut reaction, I have no definitive grounds to rule you grammatically incorrect.’
  • ‘A not uncommon objection is that the questions framed by the national court are, in some sense, incorrect.’
  • ‘This is just a blatant incorrect usage that happened so often that the rules changed.’
  • ‘The member was quite incorrect to stand while I was ruling on the point of order.’
  • ‘Then all those he has misled into incorrect spellings in their logbooks will wish to contact him.’
  • ‘They're all terrified of repeating the mistakes of 2000 by making incorrect calls.’
  • ‘First of all, it asserts as an error of law an incorrect application of the law to the facts.’
  • ‘Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.’
  • ‘To this day, Jones refuses to admit that his behaviour, caught on camera before all the world, was incorrect.’
  • ‘You might think that any hint of the politically incorrect might have been expunged from our toy shops by now, but no.’

  Synonyms

  inappropriate, wrong, unsuitable, inapt, inapposite, undesirable

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