(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
containing or characterized by error- Erroneously I imagined some personal reason.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- IT WOULD BE ERRONEOUS to say Sohrab was quiet.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- All this may perhaps be true; but the inferences which have been drawn from these truths are exceedingly erroneous.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- Like the pyramids and the ruins of Maya, they will commemorate an erroneous development of human genius.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- The evidence is, in fact, erroneous.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- The impression which I had received respecting the character and condition of the people of the north, I found to be singularly erroneous.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- It took me a minute to understand the erroneous conclusion he'd drawn.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.George Orwell -- 1984
- In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln said: "We think the decision is erroneous.Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
- My dear Peter, people go by so many erroneous assumptions.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone-though erroneous they may be fine-This is the very thing in which consists poetry.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- But if that were an extravagant and erroneous supposition, there certainly was proof positive that her own small individual world was wrong.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- There was so much erroneous information in this statement that it honestly took me a second to decide, outline style, what to address first.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- It was evident to us, however, that this popular idea was erroneous.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- This is one of the many examples of the men missing in action erroneously reported and later being established as a lie.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- It was not hard to imagine various appointments by the scores that were best left to erroneous registrations.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- CHAPTER 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick