Defn: That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies.
Note: Pogy is often confounded with porgy, and therefore incorrectly applied to various fishes.
Epiderma -is: the cellular layer of the skin, underlying and secreting the cuticula: incorrectly applied to the outer skin or cuticle.
Earchair is incorrectly written for Fhearchair, the possessive of Farquhar; Fhearchair is pronounced Erraquhar or Earchair.
It heeds a soil of bog earth, and is incorrectlystyled "the flowering Fern," from its handsome spikes of fructification.
The world of many things surrounds us; our notions, by which we manage correctly or incorrectly to describe it, are also ready made.
The pipe is quite incorrectly held, more than two fingers being employed while the thumb is free.
The bore of the instrument is conical, the holes are incorrectly given, and the hand is wrong.
As distinguished from the other religions of the world Christianity may be not incorrectly defined as the religion of the individual.
In 20 failures out of 66, marriage was incorrectly connected with a will, a divorce, the death of a child, etc.
When the children responded incorrectly or incompletely, they were often given help, but not always to the same extent.
K) was incorrectly cited as Blatta orientalis by Watson (1916).
The two next dates were incorrectlyentered by Dorothy.
Footnote 22: This and the two following dates are incorrectly given.
The six illustrative diagrams given by Julius Pacius afford great help, though the two first of them appear to me incorrectly printed, as to the brackets connecting the different propositions.
Mistakes often flow fromincorrectly setting out the two contradictories.
But he employs it incorrectly as an intermediate step to slur over the radical distinction between Induction and Syllogism.
The cause of this phenomenon will presently appear; meanwhile I state it, in the place of an assertion sometimes incorrectly made, viz.
Unfortunately for our purpose, the coast beyond the Cape is very incorrectly drawn, and there are but six names, viz.
This is (if not incorrectly translated) a grotesque and puerile allegation.
The passageincorrectly cited by Mr. Carlyle occurs in Les Entretiens a'Ariste et d'Eugène, a small duodecimo volume published in 1671.
Schoolcraft also gives the Cherokee tradition of the war with the Shawano, as obtained indirectly from white informants, butincorrectly makes it occur while the latter tribe still lived upon the Savannah.
From their former intimate association with the Uchee, living in the same neighborhood, some early writers have incorrectly supposed the two tribes to be the same.
Colonel William Christian, sometimes incorrectlycalled Christy, was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, in 1732.
From a similarity of spelling, Schoolcraft incorrectly makes it a synonym for Catawba, while Brinton incorrectly asserts that it is an Algonquian term, fancifully rendered, "inhabitants of the great wilderness.
It was not the Indian name of the river, and does not mean "Big spoon," as has been incorrectly asserted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incorrectly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
