incorrect

Preposition: in

way: Today it may well be regarded as politically incorrect in some ways.

Infinitive complement

• assume: It is quite incorrect to assume that this art form is an activity only for children.
• say: Strictly speaking it is incorrect to say that the single individual ` thinks ' .
• claim: I think it is clearly incorrect to claim that selling MP3s is bad business.

Modifies a noun

• spelling: The incorrect spelling here is probably due to Bevan being a local name in the Forest.
• assumption: If this is an incorrect assumption, please don't despair!
• positioning: Incorrect positioning of buckets or artificial teats can also cause digestive disorders, leading to diarrhea.
• diagnosis: In some cases patients can be treated for long periods with antidepressants or other medications when an incorrect psychiatric diagnosis is made.
• answer: I'm pleased to say that there were no incorrect answers!
• conclusion: Does incorrect conclusion about the imprint on a t-shirt cast doubt on the rest of analysis?

Modifying Another Word

• factually: And yet the majority of Britons hold firm and, as the poll showed, factually incorrect, beliefs about asylum seekers.
• politically: I suspect it would deemed politically incorrect to admit being wrong.
• grammatically: Personally, there's nothing that dents my confidence more in an online business than poorly written, grammatically incorrect, misspelt copy.
• syntactically: On encountering a syntactically incorrect clause then an error message will be printed.
• demonstrably: Elsewhere, the authorsâ transcription of original sources is poor, demonstrably incorrect or inconsistent.
• technically: While technically incorrect, it is popularly used in a great deal of published literature.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: In most cases, then, predictions based on animal experiments proved incorrect.
• deem: I suspect it would deemed politically incorrect to admit being wrong.
• consider: The measurements supplied are for general guidance and as such must be considered incorrect.
• cause: This caused incorrect derived rates for England and some of the sub-national areas ( e.g.