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/ɪnˈækjərəsi/ Listen

noun

Inaccuracy n. (pl. inaccuracies)

The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy or exactness.

That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.

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Etymology of 'Inaccuracy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inaccuracy" Quotes from Famous Books

... and in the morning—only think!—nearly all the shields had changed places. In some places the inscriptions were so malicious, that grandfather would not speak of them at all; but I saw that he was chuckling secretly, and there may have been some inaccuracy ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... him led me into injustice to his Socialist foes in those early days, and often made me ascribe to them calculated malignity instead of hasty and prejudiced assertion. Added to this, their uncurbed violence in discussion, their constant interruptions during the speeches of opponents, their reckless inaccuracy in matters of fact, were all bars standing in the way of the thoughtful. When I came to know them better, I found that the bulk of their speakers were very young men, overworked and underpaid, who spent their scanty leisure ...

— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant

... to Nurse Freeman that evening, but it is doubtful if she were the better for it. She was a very good woman in most things, but she could not bear that the children should be under anyone but herself; and just as Henry lost the truth by inaccuracy, she ...

— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... be ranked under this name 'NATURE.' In enumerating the values of Nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses—in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur. Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a picture, a statue. ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... as to its authorship, which they have circulated with complete assurance; but they have not felt it incumbent upon them to support their own views or to combat those of other people. It has, moreover, been frequently stated with equal confidence and inaccuracy that the authorship has never been settled. An early and persistent version of the genesis of the travels was that they took their origin from the rivalry in fabulous tales of three accomplished ...

— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe

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