incorrectly

incorrect | American Dictionary

incorrect
adjective
us/ˌɪn·kəˈrekt/
not correct; not accurate:
He charged that the news story was factually incorrect and demanded an apology.

incorrectly

adverbus/ˌɪn·kəˈrekt·li/
For each question on the test that is answered incorrectly, you will lose two points.

Examples of incorrect

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In other words, incorrect optional rules create a superset which must be restricted to a subset.
Outliers and incorrect responses (7.6 per cent of the data) were excluded from the analyses.
The book is rather let down by poor quality of the colour plates, and incorrect numbering of text references to them.
Most of those so labelled reject all of these names as incorrect or even pejorative, but there is much discussion of what to use instead.
The author protested that this was both incorrect and an insult.
In most classroom spelling tests and in all standardized spelling tests of which we are aware, children's spellings are scored simply as correct or incorrect.
To investigate this problem, we gave incorrect variance ratios as the initial values and iterated until convergence.
Here, again, the concern is entirely justified, but the conclusion is incorrect.
However, our data show this to be incorrect.
In addition, it shows that infants actively direct others' attention, and even redirect others' attention when they are mistakenly referring to an incorrect referent.
The grammatical classification of most of these words is uncontroversial ; in these instances, the network simply produced incorrect predictions.
Only those children who made both correct and incorrect interpretations of pseudo-homonyms were included in this analysis.
If incorrect interpretations had required more time, one could argue that the children were considering the conflict between meanings.
The sequential order in which children's production of words changes from correct to incorrect will need to be documented longitudinally.
Initial infant theories are replaced with more advanced theories and this process continues because each of these theories leads to incorrect predictions.
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