incorrect
The gold medal was incorrectly awarded to Irina Karavaeva.
A faulty DNA test incorrectly determined that a British man was not the father.
Mr Harris had admitted that he acted incorrectly.
Girls should have the power to say no - to their peers, or to an adult who is behaving incorrectly.

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aberrantly
abnormal
amiss
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fallaciousness
false
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falsely
invalidly
irregularly
liberal
liberally
mal-
quarrel
wrongheaded
wrongheadedly
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incorrectly
In dialogue act tagging, we found that useful rules did not always refer to the current tag of an incorrectly tagged instance.
Table 5 displays, in raw numbers and percentages, the distribution of correctly and incorrectly used present-tense finite and nonfinite verb forms.
Testing ended when the child incorrectly reproduced both sequences at a given string length.
Each correctly spelled target letter received 1 point, and each incorrectly spelled one received 0 points.
Both of these analyses incorrectly predict that affricates and fricatives should undergo assimilation.
This may provide opportunities for entry of animal-contaminated water to concessions in low-pressure situations or when valves are incorrectly closed.
Conversely, target voiceless obstruents were produced incorrectly as voiced in onsets, but were produced correctly in codas.
That is, if word-initial target voiced obstruents had been internalized incorrectly as voiceless, they would have been realized as voiceless, contrary to the actual facts.
In other words, if a respondent placed all the parties incorrectly in relation to one another then they would score 3 points.
During the test phase they were free to reassert this assumption and consequently selected or judged incorrectly.
Testing stops when the child responds incorrectly to six items in a row, provided that those six items are at the end of a page.
If chunks are aligned incorrectly, then some correct word alignments are ruled out from the start, since words cannot be aligned across chunk pairs.
But when they strike the balance incorrectly, they cannot but do comparative injustice.
Derivational theories predict that overgeneralization errors can follow from the combined effect of incorrectly internalized underlying representations and rule loss.
The palatal glide is incorrectly placed in the same column as the sibilants, and the postalveolar sibilant is listed separately.
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