inconsistent

inconsistency | American Dictionary

inconsistency
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪn·kənˈsɪs·tən·si/
a situation in which two things do not match and are opposed:
[ C ]There appear to be inconsistencies in her alibi.

Examples of inconsistency

inconsistency
The further away any two criteria are from each other in the linguistic hierarchy, the more liberal the system is in permitting such inconsistencies.
As the terms are bounded, this inconsistency may be removed in the next order.
For example, there is inconsistency in defining the concept of quality.
Such inconsistencies should have been edited out, and comparisons/contrasts in crop breeding strategies, biotechnologies, histories, uses and gene resources edited in.
Inconsistency among donors also exists in their attempts to influence political reform, even within one recipient country.
The closest candidate to a dual of blindness turns out to be inconsistency.
Since we deal with exactly this kind of objects, we could not escape the inconsistency.
As we have seen, this time inconsistency is not the general case but depends on the degree of the specificity of investments into market access.
Thus, while this position cannot necessarily be dismissed on the grounds of inconsistency, its implications will not be explored further.
From this comparison, we see that there are some useful logics for reasoning with inconsistency in structured text.
There were some inconsistencies across districts between the proportions of men who exhibited knowledge in the three different areas.
The same discipline forestalls the policy inconsistency problem referred to earlier.
She is secretly grateful she has been turned down, as there are a few inconsistencies and outright conceptual and linguistic errors inherent in the work.
No inconsistency was observed in any of the four independent experiments (data not shown).
To be more precise, what is your own view on the key policy lessons one should take from time inconsistency?
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