Definition of Inconsistent

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Inconsistent

Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.

Not exhibiting uniformity of sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable.

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Inconsistent Quotations

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas Jefferson

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
George Mason

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
Jim Evans

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tryon Edwards

The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.
Charles W. Pickering

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
John Desmond Bernal

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
Simon Greenleaf

Inconsistent Translations

inconsistent in Dutch is inconsequent
inconsistent in German is widersprechend, unvereinbar, folgewidrig
inconsistent in Latin is inconstans, incongruens
inconsistent in Norwegian is selvmotsigende, inkonsekvent
inconsistent in Spanish is incoherente
inconsistent in Swedish is inkonsekvent

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