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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

... Elle et Lui have been so preoccupied with the question of the rights and wrongs of the originals in their behavior to each other, so inclined to judge of the book according to its supposed accuracy or inaccuracy as a matter of history, that its force, as a study of the attraction that so often leads two exceptional but hopeless, irreconcilable spirits to seek in each other a refuge from the isolation in which their superiority places them, has been somewhat overlooked. Laurent, whether ...

— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas

... would have been stated with some accuracy and a good deal of inaccuracy, and a good many things which were not facts would have been introduced. Then the defendants in their statement of defence would have denied that there was any such place as Egypt as alleged; {52} denied that Pharaoh ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... studying such questions, which is to challenge and analyze the assertion before us and seek its basis in human nature. Before this is done, we should run the risk of expanding a natural misconception or inaccuracy of thought into an inveterate and pernicious prejudice by making it the ...

— The Sense of Beauty - Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory • George Santayana

... life been an attentive companion to myself, flattering my nature agreeably on plausible occasions, reviling it rather bitterly when it mortified me, and in general remembering its doings and sufferings with a tenacity which is too apt to raise surprise if not disgust at the careless inaccuracy of my acquaintances, who impute to me opinions I never held, express their desire to convert me to my favourite ideas, forget whether I have ever been to the East, and are capable of being three several times astonished at my never having told them before of my accident in the Alps, ...

— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot

... bought only with the one currency of eternal vigilance, and coupled with these others who were too busy to attend to the active processes by which the government is from time to time renewed; and they have concluded, with fatal inaccuracy of judgment, that this exceptional disposition of a small number of persons was a type of the whole population. Nothing could be more absurdly untrue. Outside of a very limited circle no such political fatigue exists. The people generally are deeply interested in ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various

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