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View synonyms for erroneously

erroneously

[ ih-roh-nee-uhs-lee, e-roh- ]

adverb

  1. incorrectly; wrongly:

    For years I recorded my birth date erroneously as July 1, until I discovered from my father’s diary that it was actually July 30.

  2. by mistake; unintentionally:

    I just posted these comments again because they were erroneously wiped out the first time due to a technical issue.



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But Uber's surges are not price gouging, as some have erroneously claimed.

Update: An earlier version of this story erroneously described the group as anti-Bashar al-Assad.

Then, it was erroneously reported that Anna Karenina director Joe Wright had won the job (a very strange choice).

When the New York Post reported—erroneously—that police had detained a Saudi suspect, Rep. Steve King was quick to react.

Her brother, George Percy, was erroneously linked to Pippa Middleton.

Laverdire erroneously considers Sacqu as another form of Sagn, or Saguenay.

It has succeeded not in driving out, as I think it has been erroneously held, but in absorbing Buddhism.

Charley is one of my pets; and I am afraid I have presented you with an erroneously flattered picture of him.

In the sixth century of our era the monk Gildas referred complacently but erroneously to the ancient British faith as being dead.

The result of such desultory visits would be exactly what has been noticed, but erroneously attributed to immigration en masse.

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erroneouserr on the side of caution