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View definitions for correctness

correctness

noun as in accuracy

noun as in propriety

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Uploaded code is run in a sandboxed Docker container and its output tested for correctness.

Others have challenged the correctness of their ratings on the basis that the agencies had not discussed them with the country’s representatives.

From Quartz

So, saying that we would have been safer to call it by a different name because of political correctness, I throw that out the window.

From Ozy

The search for those has been intense, as they are taken as the main possible confirmation of the correctness of inflation.

Most times, these are not due to correctness or error from your end.

Thus the adoption of any particular verb is a matter of taste, not a question of absolute correctness.

That was why he had his own plane, a big dual-prop Martin 404 called, in those days before political correctness, El Dago.

I do not believe in political correctness, by the way, OK?

The league has never kicked out someone for speech before, but the era of smartphones and political correctness may change that.

And just who exactly is being silenced by political correctness?

Judge: Now, Sir, your punishment shall depend on the shortness and correctness of your answers.

He was engaged in the Encyclopedie, and his articles on grammar are drawn up with great precision, correctness and judgment.

Who are you, as you speak our language with such correctness that you might almost be taken for one of our countrymen?

He knew a good deal by memory, and repeated many passages with feeling and correctness.

He was the more convinced of the correctness of this from the fact that the word for trunk or box, in French, is coffre.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to correctness, such as: truth, definiteness, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, and fidelity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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