Incorrectly

//ˌɪnkəˈɹɛk(t).li//

"Incorrectly" in a Sentence (13 examples)

He answered incorrectly.

He broke the machine by using it incorrectly.

In informal, everyday speech, the word "literally" is often used incorrectly as an intensifier.

I still haven't received your e-mail. Perhaps you wrote down my e-mail address incorrectly?

Tom answered incorrectly.

If there is one thing history has taught us, it's that we often incorrectly predict the future.

Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected.

If you swim incorrectly the judges will disqualify you.

You are using the word incorrectly.

You're using the word incorrectly.

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I lost a few marks in the test for spelling words incorrectly.

In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009.

A RIF notice received by one FDA employee on Tuesday included performance ratings that were incorrectly low, meaning the severance pay offered was lower than it would be for the ratings they previously received, the employee told CNN.

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