Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By mistake; erroneously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By mistake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By
mistake , inerror ,wrongly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a mistaken manner
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Examples
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Department of Agriculture concluded it had awarded the label mistakenly, because the company was still using medication that it characterized as antibiotics.
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* In Canada, some early copies of the initial run of this title mistakenly have Ang Lee's earlier "Hulk" film in the case instead of the newer Incredible Hulk film.
Home Theater Forum dpippel 2010
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* In Canada, some early copies of the initial run of this title mistakenly have Ang Lee's earlier "Hulk" film in the case instead of the newer Incredible Hulk film.
Home Theater Forum kemcha 2010
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* In Canada, some early copies of the initial run of this title mistakenly have Ang Lee's earlier "Hulk" film in the case instead of the newer Incredible Hulk film.
Home Theater Forum dpippel 2010
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From the CTA, O'Hare, Chicago Public Schools and many of Daley's other debacles, he now also wants to spend about a half-billion dollars more on a temporary city-controlled stadium for the Olympic bid that is only necessary due to Daley's $700 million cost to taxpayers in mistakenly renovating Soldier Field in a way that eliminated it from being used as the main Olympic venue.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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McCain mistakenly thinks that a timed withdrawal = surrender ...
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Every August, people get their telescopes out to catch what some call mistakenly shooting stars.
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Text-only version The mistakes date back at least to the 1930s, when Pete Palangio of the Chicago Blackhawks had his name mistakenly engraved twice -- once spelled incorrectly as "Palagio."
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Toni Braxton's little sister will be here (woot! woot!) and N-Toon, which will have shitloads of people in the crowd, simply because I called mistakenly referred to them as N-Sync in the paper this week.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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When I recall how often I have seen Socialists and ardent non-Socialists working side by side for some specific measure of social or industrial reform, and how I have found opposed to them on the side of privilege many shrill reactionaries who insist on calling all reformers Socialists, I refuse to be panic-stricken by having this title mistakenly applied to me.
zc0000 commented on the word mistakenly
New authors of XML documents often misunderstand the purpose of a CDATA section, mistakenly believing that its purpose is to "protect" data from being treated as ordinary character data during processing.
April 11, 2010