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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not corrected.

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  • adjective Not corrected

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  • adjective left faulty or wrong
  • adjective not subjected to correction or discipline

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Examples

  • By allowing incorrect registrations to remain uncorrected, and refusing to permit the identities of registrants to be verified, the risk of illegitimate and fraudulent voting is greatly increased, and so too the risk that all legitimate voters will be disenfranchised.

    Sound Politics: Voter registration ruling was based on bogus evidence 2006

  • On the face of it someone employed by the Commons has either deliberately purveyed an untruth or has wittingly allowed an untruth to remain uncorrected.

    What did Gorbals Mick Know & When Did he Know it? 2008

  • On the face of it someone employed by the Commons has either deliberately purveyed an untruth or has wittingly allowed an untruth to remain uncorrected.

    Archive 2008-02-17 2008

  • He had still the notion uncorrected, that things in the country belonged to nobody in particular, and were mostly for the use of animals, with which, since he became a wanderer, he had almost come to class himself.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • I am VERY interested in your intersex male friend as an 'uncorrected' or 'unadjusted' intersex individual is VERY rare; the standard now is to let the identity by 3-5 determine the surgeries that make the 'equipment'.

    A few moments of theory, and many minutes of pure arousal. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Now -- one "uncorrected" racist story that seems to be undergoing an unexpurgated revival is "Struwwelpeter".

    Who's Our Enid? Roger Sutton 2006

  • In fact, I suspect that varieties of sexism is the locus of most of the "uncorrected" classic children's lit -- since blatant (or perceived) racism has mostly been revised, per Sambo (or, another example of revised-thus-still-in-print, "Dr. Doolittle").

    Who's Our Enid? Roger Sutton 2006

  • Table 2 where the 'uncorrected' reconstruction shows calibrated variance R2 of 50.3%.

    Briffa's Tornetrask Reconstruction « Climate Audit 2005

  • We will no longer permit any system to go uncorrected which is based upon private understandings and expert testimony; we will not allow the few to continue to determine what the policy of the country is to be.

    The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Woodrow Wilson 1890

  • However .. now, for some unknown reason, T-Mobile have "uncorrected" their Post subject: Re: T-Mobile HTC HD2 details now even more confused Post subject: Re: T-Mobile HTC HD2 details now even more confused Post subject: Re: T-Mobile HTC HD2 details now even more confused

    Coolsmartphone News 2009

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