All 4 Uses
discrepancy
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and taloned man-devouring ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.†
Chpt 4discrepancy = an unexpected difference between two things
- But finally it occurred to me all of a sudden that these animals didn't reason; that they never put this and that together; that all their talk showed that they didn't know a discrepancy when they saw it.†
Chpt 5 *
- So I called a halt and said: "Sire, as between clothes and countenance, you are all right, there is no discrepancy; but as between your clothes and your bearing, you are all wrong, there is a most noticeable discrepancy.†
Chpt 28
- So I called a halt and said: "Sire, as between clothes and countenance, you are all right, there is no discrepancy; but as between your clothes and your bearing, you are all wrong, there is a most noticeable discrepancy.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(discrepancy) disagreement -- especially an unexpected difference between two things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)