Definition of Incorrect

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Incorrect

Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty.

Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation.

Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct.

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Incorrect Quotations

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
Farrah Fawcett

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Thomas Huxley

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.
Benny Hinn

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
Francis Crick

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.
Lee Scott

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan Perlis

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
Leslie Caron

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Mary Hart

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
Marvin Harris

Incorrect Translations

incorrect in Afrikaans is onjuis
incorrect in Dutch is verkeerd, onjuist, fout, mis
incorrect in French is incorrect, postiche
incorrect in German is inkorrekt, inkorrekt, falsch, unrichtig
incorrect in Hungarian is helytelen, rossz
incorrect in Italian is infondato, difettoso, fasullo
incorrect in Norwegian is uriktig
incorrect in Portuguese is incorreto
incorrect in Spanish is defectuoso, impropio, incorrecto, falso
incorrect in Swedish is oriktig, felaktig

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