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UK
/ɪnkəɹˈɛktnəs/
]
NOUN
- lack of conformity to social expectations
- the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
How To Use incorrectness In A Sentence
- But Cedric the Entertainer steals the show as Eddie, the ancient barber who is a paragon of political incorrectness.
- His conclusion in particular was stirring in its content and delivery, and very welcome in its determined political incorrectness.
- In none of those fields have I found stubbornly inconsistent opinions of stubbornly ignorant people (people who choose to remain so nonexpert that not only can't they paraphrase the standard model, they can't even pick a paraphrase of the standard model out of a lineup) to be a useful warning of incorrectness. The Myth of the Rational Voter, Sowell Edition, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Now the political incorrectness of lighting up has taken the war on cigarettes from the realm of everyday life to a place where the curtain seems set to fall on the art of smoking in public performances.
- When you came to me and suggested that you should make two copies of everything, one correct, one a mass of incorrectness, I must admit that I thought the idea farfetched and unworkable. The Betrayal
- I did notice the political incorrectness of that remark (and its inexactness) but overall it was a good article in my opinion and will be welcomed by LOndoners sick of perpetual fear Girls Like Pink ...Fact
- Indeed the book deliberately oversteps any fine lines of political correctness to ventilate the incorrectness of anger and cynicism, the voicing of nasty things that are felt and festering, but usually left unspoken.
- Now, when the FM writes "political correctness", what it actually means is 'incorrectness'. Mayibuye Editorial
- How about the Chinese literally using what in essence is "slave labor" (a portion of the labor is convicted criminals, some of whom were convicted of political "incorrectness") in their larger manufacturing plants? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- We miss its toe-curling political incorrectness, its shabby vulgarity, its embarrassed actors, and its toilet-roll scripts.
