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Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.

If this is inaccurate or incomplete, the Government cannot blame the newspapers.

His book is, however, inaccurate and grossly partial.

It is often inaccurate, and it abounds in farfetched conceits and odd and pedantic features.

The address of the clergy, inspired by the great prelates, sought to make inaccurate lamentations over the progress of impiety a means of safeguarding their enormous spiritual and temporal powers, their privileges and exemptions, and their vast wealth.

As a matter of fact, Leonardo gives a wholly inaccurate account of the direction of the stroke of the wing.

Maps of the roads in the area are grossly inaccurate.

This result, though widely inaccurate, came much nearer to the truth than any previously obtained; and it instructively illustrated the feasibility of concerted astronomical operations at distant parts of the earth.

The Gospel and the First Epistle are written in correct and flowing Greek, and there is not a barbarism, a solecism, or a provincialism in them; whereas the Greek of the Apocalypse is inaccurate, disfigured by unusual or foreign words and even at times by solecisms."

The " East Indies," as opposed to the " West Indies," is an old-fashioned and inaccurate phrase, dating from the dawn of maritime discovery, and still lingering in certain parliamentary papers.

Up to this time the Territory had still remained for the most part a wilderness in which the fur trade reaped the largest profits, its few small settlements being confined to the borders; and the inaccurate reports of the surveyors sent out by the national government described the interior as a vast swamp with only here and there a little land fit for cultivation.

The information might be old, outdated or inaccurate.

The use, therefore, of the inaccurate and misleading terms northern and southern ought no longer to be followed in scholarly works on Buddhism.

The Augustan age produced in Livy a great popular historian and natural artist and a trained rhetorician (in the speeches), - but as uncritical and inaccurate as he was brilliant.

In 1636 he met with a congenial spirit in William Crabtree, a draper of Broughton, near Manchester; and encouraged by his advice he exchanged the guidance of Philipp von Lansberg, a pretentious but inaccurate Belgian astronomer, for that of Kepler.

The full QWERTY keyboard lets you easily send messages or write emails without trying to use an inaccurate touch screen keyboard.

Children taking the test who have had certain foods, medications, or cigarettes before the test may get inaccurate results.

But although the book in question was issued under letters patent, it is not really a translation of the Elizabethan book at all, but simply a reshaping of Aless's clever and inaccurate translation of Edward VI.'s first book.

Michelet's wonderful depiction in his Histoire de France (livres 13 to 17) has never teen surpassed for graphic word-painting, but it is inaccurate in details, and superseded in scholarship. Of the original sources for the reign the Lettres de Louis XI.

It is this aggregation which we describe variously as birth, death, maturity, decay, and of which the senses give inaccurate reports.

Gentleman would be pretty merciless if the answers were drafted and they turned out to be inaccurate.

We will also correct, amend or delete any Personal Data that is inaccurate and notify any third party recipients of the necessary changes.

That of 1900 was notoriously inaccurate in many instances.

His statements are sometimes demonstrably inaccurate (see Making of Religion, Appendix C).

Moderns generally acquit him of this charge; but his severer critics still urge that, from the inherent defects of his character, his credulity, his love of effect and his loose and inaccurate habits of thought, he was unfitted for the historian's office, and has produced a work of but small historical value.

The record was so inaccurate that it had no statistical value until 1820, when the muster was taken after due preparation and with greater care, approximating to the system of a regular census.

Rough approximations must always precede accurate measurements; and these returns, while often inaccurate, are better than nothing, and probably improve with each decade.

He is less inaccurate in fact than Michelet, but he is also much less absorbed by a single idea at a time, and the result is that he seldom attains to the vivid representation of which Michelet was a master.

The first attempt to evolve order out of the chaos which had long reigned supreme was made in 1791, for we find in the preface of the first volume of the Stud-Book, published in 1808, that " with a view to correct the then increasing evil of false and inaccurate pedigrees, the author was in the year 1791 prevailed upon to publish an Introduction to a General Stud-Book, consisting of a small collection of pedigrees which he had extracted from racing calendars and sale papers and arranged on a new plan."

However, typographical errors and inaccurate information are unavoidable with a project this size and with an ever changing medical landscape.

Many ADSL modems will display the equivalent of the woosh test, but these can be inaccurate.

The GameCube has been pegged as being for "kids", but that's inaccurate.

Many of these sites exist to earn advertising revenue or make the site owner money, and they often contain inaccurate or risky investment advice.

Divvy up the list of errors into three separate piles and write up formal disputes for everything that is the slightest inaccurate.

Monitor it for mistakes and clear up any inaccurate information.

The law says that you have a right to know what is in your file and that, if it's inaccurate, you have an opportunity to correct the mistakes.

If, after looking through your personal records, you find that (a) you have already satisfied the debt or (b) the amount is inaccurate, you have cause to send a dispute letter.

This does not mean they can instantly eliminate suspected fraud or inaccurate information.

If using existing cushion sections, make sure that they're flat and complete or your pattern will be inaccurate.

Unfortunately, some communities feel it is no longer cost-effective to recycle, even though in the long run, this will prove inaccurate.

Your mother may have taught you that testing foundation on your hand or arm is a great way to find the perfect match, however this advice is outdated and inaccurate.

For this measurement, you want to hold the tape loosely, as pulling too tight will result in an inaccurate reading.

Just as with any news or gossip website, there are times when what is reported is inaccurate and yes, biased.

So began the long history of inaccurate and negative press about the breed.

Keep in mind that the tuner may sometimes record an inaccurate reading if it is too far from the strings.

A chart that prints slightly too large or slightly too small will give inaccurate results.

Readers who see inaccurate pictures will question our credibility, and we want to be accurate.

Known as Katana in Japan, Sodom is a caucasian male obsessed with Japanese culture, though his knowledge of the language and other details is largely inaccurate and incomplete.

The arm cuff used to measure blood pressure in children must be appropriate to the child's size, or the reading may be inaccurate.

Because movement during the scan can cause inaccurate images, the technologist instructs the patient via an intercom system to hold their breath and not move during the x rays.

Never post inaccurate, old, or retouched photographs.