inexactitude :

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inexactitude


  • n  the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

  • Relaxed chuckling when Jones, admonished by the speaker, "apologized," declaring that Lady Astor had been guilty not of a "lie" but of a "terminological inexactitude.
  • He said: 'The right honorable gentleman committed a terminological inexactitude.
  • Relaxed chuckling when Jones, admonished by the speaker, "apologized," declaring that Lady Astor had been guilty not of a "lie" but of a "terminological inexactitude.
Quotes

  • Bob Woodward in MSNBC (press release)
    ...notes Woodward called him an "old friend," gave him the characteristics of a night owl and a bachelor, a man of extreme temper, journalistically savvy but loathing of their "inexactitude and shallowness."

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