(a.) Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
(a.) Misleading; misled; mistaking.
(a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(2) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(3) A conclusion was made of inappropriateness of the use of iron combined with other preparations in view of numerous cases of side-effects and danger of the development of siderosis of internal organs as a result of erroneous drug administration.
(4) The results showed that measurements of impression profiles and SEM photogrammetry gave the most accurate results adjacent to regions simulating steep cavity margins, whereas the profilometric technique gave erroneous results in these regions.
(5) The belief that hydrocephalus could not be caused by venous obstruction is the result of erroneous or inadequate concepts of venous anatomy.
(6) Of 153 patients with confirmed rectal cancer CEA was recorded in 139 (90.8%); erroneous results were noted in 14 (9.2%) patients; in scintigraphy with 67Ga-citrate and 111In-bleomycin diagnoses coincided in 147 (96.1%) patients, and false-negative results were noted in 6 (3.9%) patients.
(7) Since patients with this type of implant may be examined with computed tomography (CT) for possible pulmonary metastatic disease, recognition of the CT appearance is important in order to avoid the erroneous diagnosis of an infected prosthesis.
(8) The proportion of aberrantly projecting axons appears to be quite small, and in most embryos, it was impossible to determine whether the erroneous projections originated from unbranched axons or were collateral branches of others.
(9) These results indicate that the use of serially diluted BPDE-DNA of high modification as standard competitor in the ELISA will lead to erroneous results in the measurement of adducts in DNAs modified to a low extent (biological samples).
(10) Playing, interfering with erroneous beliefs about sexual arousal, and avoiding helping the workhorse work harder are the trust of this paper.
(11) Such an analyser (Capnomac, Datex) was tested while performing two errors: a) erroneous selection of the agent on the analyser, the vaporizer being filled with the correct agent; b) total or partial filling of the vaporizer (Vapor 19, Dräger) with an incorrect agent, the analyser being set for the agent the vaporizer was specified for.
(12) In this study we show that Durkheim's interpretation of the historical evidence is erroneous: not increasing condemnation of suicide, but rather tolerance or mild aversion is the typical social response to suicide.
(13) Causes of erroneous diagnoses seemed to be multifactorial, such as inappropriate sampling, diagnosis on poor quality histology sections, lack of clinical information, lack of enough experience in FS practice of pathologists, or a combination of more than two of them, though inevitable cases showing minimal cytological and structural atypia were included.
(14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
(15) Over-emphasis of clinical features or neglect of CT findings should be discouraged as they may lead to erroneous diagnosis; 3.
(16) It also confirms that the old concept of consistency of the mandibular postural position (Thompson, 1946) is erroneous.
(17) In the conventional competitive binding assay, damaged radioligand, dissociation of the binding complex, or limitations of ligand availability may be responsible for the erroneous results.
(18) Experimental data suggest, however, that the 'inert tube' model may be erroneous for polar solvents which have a high water solubility.
(19) In two-thirds of these cases the delay was due to an erroneous diagnosis, either of cerebrovascular accident or of alcoholic intoxication.
(20) Supply rates less than removal rate will result in erroneous measurements of the constant removal rate.
Wrongheaded
Definition:
(a.) Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any connection to terrorism and serious crime is wrongheaded of course, as any application to access phone records when such activity is suspected would be waived through by any judge.
(2) The second set of considerations is practical, and it is here that the campaign feels especially wrongheaded.
(3) At least there is more consistency to Osborne’s position, though on the economy it is still wrongheaded .
(4) Harding described such criticism as “wrongheaded” but admitted that this latest initiative might look like the BBC trying to “cosy up” to the papers just as it is looking for support for the renewal of its royal charter and the licence fee.
(5) "I think it's wrongheaded and will ultimately be self-defeating.
(6) This is a wrongheaded notion which assumes that the citizen is a fool and that political success depends on playing to this folly.
(7) Labour's attacks on Cameron and his team as inexperienced, wrongheaded public school boys were concerted and an obvious attempt to get revenge for John Major's defeat of Neil Kinnock in 1992.
(8) Cameron said: “The eagerness to pass the buck is not just wrongheaded and hypocritical, it also allows extremism to flourish.
(9) Donald Trump travel ban 'simplistic and wrongheaded', says former CIA chief Read more The removal of the CIA liaison had immediate consequences, sources said.
(10) One either goes for the realistic approach, which means that scenes filmed outside spacecraft are screened silently, or one opts for the completely wrongheaded (but significantly less soporific) method in which large objects smashing together in space create exciting explosion noises.
(11) Paul Stephens, a fellow at Chatham House thinktank, said in a research paper the oil “majors” were no longer fit for purpose – hit by low crude prices, tightening climate change regulations and their own wrongheaded strategies.
(12) It is wrongheaded and I don’t think it would enhance the security of our country.” Asked if he thought the ban would be counterproductive for US security, Brennan said: “I do, because a lot of citizens from those countries who have very legitimate reasons to travel to the US are really going to see this as reflecting a very different tone from the US … To me, I think they’re going to see that as profiling specific nationalities.” He was also dismissive of the Trump administration’s preference for the term “radical Islamic terrorism” in describing what it sees as the principle threat to the US.
(13) This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school’s] legal status.” The issue is also concerning a number of Conservative MPs who fear the speed at which the reforms, which were announced in the recent budget, are likely to be implemented.
(14) Duncan acknowledged today that some of the prepared guidance for school officials included a suggestion that students could compose essays stating how they could help support Obama — an idea the education secretary acknowledged was wrongheaded.
(15) He said the health and social care bill, currently going through parliament, was based on "wrongheaded ideology" that "put the patient not first, but last".
(16) She is strongly pro-Europe, and says: “Our future should be as an open, outward-looking country leading the reform of Europe, not the wrongheaded and damaging isolationism of Labour’s past.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kendall during a hustings in Glasgow.