(a.) Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty.
(a.) Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation.
(a.) Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Only 1.1 percent of birth weights would have been incorrectly classified into low or normal birth weight categories based on maternal reporting.
(3) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(4) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(5) Depending on the statement, between 26 and 54% of the interpretations were incorrect.
(6) A detailed morphologic analysis demonstrated that two of these six cases were incorrectly diagnosed as being pure mucinous carcinomas--they were actually of the mixed type.
(7) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(8) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
(9) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(10) With respect to malignant tumours, in 1961-70 clinical diagnoses were correct in 37% of cases and incorrect for 26%; in 1978-87, 47% were correct and 15% incorrect.
(11) The presence and absence of the firing were correlated with the correct and incorrect performance of the task, respectively.
(12) The products obtained upon galactanase digestion of the soybean arabianin-galactan demonstrate that the earlier proposal concerning the structure of this polysaccharide must be incorrect.
(13) A total of $4975 of patient charges was associated with incorrectly obtained SDCs or inappropriate actions taken on SDC results.
(14) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(15) It is proposed that the intermediates have an incorrectly formed beta sheet whose maturation to the structure found in the native conformation is one of the slow steps in folding.
(16) Bias is any systematic error in the design, conduct, analysis, or interpretation of a study that tends to produce an incorrect assessment of the nature of the association between an exposure or risk factor and the occurrence of disease.
(17) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
(18) The obvious questions, (1) which tree is the correct one, or (2) both trees can be incorrect, and (3) how can we explain such an evolutionary pattern, are discussed on the basis of our limited knowledge of factors that influence the clocklike behavior of biological macromolecules.
(19) Exceptions to HLA association in GH are rare and can be explained by: (1) incorrect HLA serotyping, (2) chromosomal recombination, or (3) rare homozygous-homozygous mating.
(20) Misfolded models were constructed by introducing incorrect side chains onto polypeptide backbones: side chains of the alpha-helical hemerythrin were modeled on the beta-sheeted backbone of immunoglobulin VL domain, whereas those of the VL domain were similarly modeled on the hemerythrin backbone.
Wonky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(2) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(3) The defender was under no pressure when he ran on to the ball on the edge of his own area, yet he slashed at it in a wild panic – and at a wonky angle – sending the ball spinning past his bewildered goalkeeper.
(4) Maybe any choice of successor – wonky or shrewd – – if, bizarrely, that is thought to be necessary – will set a revised course.
(5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
(6) A topic many had dismissed as boring and wonky has proved more controversial than Janet Jackson’s nipple – the singer’s accidental exposure during the Super Bowl in 2004 triggered a then record 1.4m comments to the FCC.
(7) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(8) The speechwriter, Michael Cohen : 'Forget the extraneous wonky arguments of Denver' michael cohen Photograph: Guardian So, after what has been dubbed by the news media as the single most catastrophic, calamitous, Hindenburg-esque debate disaster in American political history, the question for Barack Obama is how does he avoid making the same mistakes again?
(9) This phenotype, which we term 'wonky', is due to hypomyelination in the CNS, and not to involvement of the immune system.
(10) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
(11) "I see him," says Anne Chisholm, "in a battered dark grey suit, probably from M&S, a striped shirt, collar a bit wonky.
(12) So what else about the wonky way the world generates wealth is still in need of reform?
(13) The local football club, Nacional, was supposed to be playing in the new stadium, but they are having to make do with a municipal ground with two open ends, missing floodlight bulbs and a hand-operated scoreboard with wonky numbers.
(14) The wonky-legged genius was then controversially not suspended for the final (some bonus detail here ), basically because the Brazil FA fixed the disciplinary panel hearing.
(15) An hour gone and this is a very wonky debate, both candidates keeping it very close.
(16) For what elevates The Ladykillers way above panto predictability is that it operates slightly off-centre; it takes its cue from its heroine (christened Mrs Lopsided), rattling about in her wonky house, perched by the railway sidings.
(17) Using abortion and gay marriage against Bush and Co Hillary being Hillary: Clinton flaunts wonky side at Washington panel Read more Establishment-backed candidates-in-waiting like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have sought to avoid discussing reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, as the party struggles to make inroads with both young and female voters.
(18) Americans like their pop stars to be just so; the British like theirs to be a bit wonky.
(19) The trimmings are shabby and the pebbly bottomed pool is huge, 140m by 40m – it easily accommodates two wonky-tiered fountains in that familiar pool-paint blue.
(20) 8.18pm BST Paul scowls at Kim's wonky pastry tomb to the dead pig.