Word: incorrection
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...Incorrect. It's Oreo," retorted the teacher...
There is also no confusion of crime and error. True contrition does not permit the phrase "Stalin's errors." Such a formulation implies that a tendency to mass murder constitutes not a moral but an intellectual failing. Hence the companion formulation that attributes crimes to choosing an "incorrect line," the moral equivalent of taking a wrong turn on a highway...
...make a most unfair and incorrect reference to us in your story on Beverly Hills. We did not provide "sleds and skis for a couple of hundred friends." It was a long, hard, slogging job of several weeks' organization for a Christmas Snow Party for Mrs. Abe Leah's charity for needy actors...
...first incorrect impression that the government conveyed was that a bevy of indictments were just around the corner. In fact, they are still tricking in; the most recent indictment, in Minnesota last week, was the first in more than four months. Turnage was the first to make lavish predictions about the prosecution rate, but only slightly less optimistic claims were being made more recently by other officials that massive indictments were on the way. Everyone involved in the implementation of registration for the draft knew that no such thing was going to happen. Such bald exaggerations may have been intended...
...racked the Law School last year. In the morning, signs appeared around the School accusing the faculty of picking the two best Black law professors available for consideration and then rejecting them. Vorenberg and Horwitz, who is the chairman of the minority search committee, dismissed these claims as factually incorrect at the forum...