Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an incorrect manner; inaccurately; not exactly: as, incorrectly copied; incorrectly stated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an incorrect manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an inaccurate manner
  • adverb in an incorrect manner

Etymologies

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incorrect +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • An article Wednesday on an Orchard Street visitor's center bearing her name incorrectly said she was the daughter of a dry-goods merchant.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • Most recently I have been told that cisgender is not a word, womanism is not a movement or a word, transphobia does not exist or I use the term incorrectly, whiteness does not act systemically and finally my favourite denial: racism does not equal prejudice + power.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Renee 2009

  • Most recently I have been told that cisgender is not a word, womanism is not a movement or a word, transphobia does not exist or I use the term incorrectly, whiteness does not act systemically and finally my favourite denial: racism does not equal prejudice + power.

    Privilege and Ignorance Speak Volumes Renee 2009

  • During the Q & A after the panel an audience member (who happened to also be a LEED accredited professional) brought up to Amit that he had used the term incorrectly, that LEED certified does not apply to products, only buildings.

    Tracy Hepler: Should We Green Wash for the Sake of Spreading Green to the Masses? 2009

  • If you looked for the book, you may have had difficulty finding it because several sources give the title incorrectly with “Phillips” instead of “Philips”.

    Irving Kristol and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • The Republicans used the term incorrectly to scare the public, what they do best, into voting for McCain by trying to turn Obama into a bogey man.

    Why We're In A World of Hurt Steve Hulett 2008

  • Part of the mess in Iraq is due to Bush believing that this is a holy war pitting Muslim "fascism" (he uses the term incorrectly) versus Christian democracy.

    Mike Garibaldi-Frick: America Needs an Agnostic in the White House 2008

  • Just interested, because it would confirm a suspicion for me (I'm inclined to believe, as you do, that Bush is a sociopath), and possibly win an argument (a friend with psych training claims that I'm using the term incorrectly, because there is no evidence of frog torture), if the source is credible.

    Kerry Steven Barnes 2008

  • The first was The Stormwatcher a book whose spine annoyingly gives the title incorrectly, so that I at first looked for "The Stormwatch" and didn't find it; even more annoyingly, I really had read this one before, or rather had it from the library and read the beginning and ending but skipped the middle b/c of it not really being my kind of book.

    Two more books Jenny Davidson 2006

  • Perhaps I'm using the term incorrectly, but for me, resonance is an echo.

    Sheila gets medieval on my . . . Douglas Hoffman 2006

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