Crossword clues for erroneously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erroneous \Er*ro"ne*ous\, a. [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.]
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Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Erroneous circulation.''
--Arbuthnot.Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision.
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Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]
An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit.
--Jer. Taylor. Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an erroneous manner. 2 incorrectly.
WordNet
adv. in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it" [syn: mistakenly]
Usage examples of "erroneously".
He knew of the Chulo and married Tessa when she was still a girl, erroneously thinking it would give him entree to the tribe and its medicinal herbs, which he trafficked in.
As a result, Mick had erroneously assumed he was a sorcerer and Brewster had decided it would only complicate things unnecessarily if he attempted to disabuse him of that notion.
In turn, Bernie Ballantyne might have erroneously figured Maizie Murdock as the extortionist and made the grave mistake of cooling her.
CHAPTER 6 Carlyle House has been the property of the Dukes of Cumberland since it was built, although it is frequently and erroneously supposed that it is a part of the heritage of the Marquisate of Carlisle by those who do not recognize that the names are similar in pronunciation but not in spelling.
Petersburg in mentioning a soldier of twenty-one who had a supernumerary testicle erroneously diagnosed as inguinal hernia.
Listed erroneously on most charts as a Gamma Class navigation hazard - which usually meant an unlocated black hole - the Bantha was actually a protostar, a small cloud of relatively cool gas slowly contracting to become a star.
Shell and Chevron, in light of the formal recusal he had signed banning him from any dealings with those companies, Griles told them that he had listed these companies erroneously on his recusal form.
Not only did the networks erroneously announce that Gore had won Florida, but they repeatedly declared that the polls were closed in Florida when they were not.
In this book I argue that in an analogous way, rigorous inquiry into the nature of consciousness may upset many of the assumptions of scientific materialism, which has erroneously excluded the subjectively experienced mind from the domain of the natural world.
Donnerjack did not hear the banshee howl again in the months that followed his pursuit of the Piper, though odd noises continued intermittently in the below ground-level area erroneously referred to as the dungeons, and the ghosts still walked the halls of Donnerjack Castle.
If this presumption were established, and disease always assumed to be the innocent victim of circumstances, and not punishable by medicines, that is, noxious agents, or poisons, until the contrary was shown, we should not so frequently hear the remark commonly, perhaps erroneously, attributed to Sir Astley Cooper, but often repeated by sensible persons, that, on the whole, more harm than good is done by medication.
Often erroneously referred to as forms of the confidence racket, but actually only its kissing cousins, are what the professionals call bunco jobs.
An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years.
Many cockers leave about an eighth of an inch, believing erroneously that the slight padding will give the head protection from an opponent's pecking.
Now she massaged them one at a time while she read the coroners reports on Aaron Harper and Eric Paltrow, the two dead, little boys whom Jeffreys may have erroneously been convicted of killing.