Sample sentences for ERRONEOUS

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Definition

containing or characterized by error

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

erroneously = in error

The War Department probably didn't want it known that they had erroneously declared two airmen dead, especially as the Japanese were exploiting this fact.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

erroneously = in error

Her son has come down to the studio especially to send her this message of reassurance after the erroneous report of a few days ago by the United States War Department, that he was officially given up as dead and missing.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

erroneous = in 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

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