adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an incorrect/wrong diagnosis
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The doctors apparently made an incorrect diagnosis.
politically incorrect
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politically incorrect jokes
the correct/incorrect answer
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You get 5 points for each correct answer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
politically
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Is a suntan just politically incorrect ?
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The downside of cutting the Scouts a little slack is too politically incorrect to imagine.
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He has escaped lightly from other brushes with the law, and from politically incorrect condemnations of homosexuality, feminism and contraception.
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Another ruled that a grassy lawn was politically incorrect on the grounds that not all children have gardens.
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Nora says it is not her island, that the idea of land ownership is absurd, not to mention politically incorrect .
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And, whispers an politically incorrect imp, than the pre-colonial and post-independence eras as well.
■ NOUN
answer
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In many instances, the same incomplete or inappropriate strategy was frequently used, producing the same incorrect answer .
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The 20-question survey had seven so-called positive questions about health care, which had correct or incorrect answers .
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Even so, the obvious incorrect answer 15 was given by more pupils than the correct answer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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incorrect spelling
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an incorrect answer
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It's simply incorrect to say that tobacco advertising does not influence young people.
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The information about current prices was incorrect .
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They discovered later that the doctor had made an incorrect diagnosis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A student with an incorrect computation may receive some credit for the process used in arriving at it, Pugmire said.
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But it seems that the assumption underlying this method is incorrect .
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Conversely, correct answers were sometimes treated as if they were incorrect .
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He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi, but realized that he was incorrect .
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It never seemed to occur to him that anyone would give him incorrect information.
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The 20-question survey had seven so-called positive questions about health care, which had correct or incorrect answers.
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These adjacent police forces were physically aberrant in nuance of bodily style and were therefore deemed to be socially incorrect .