correctness

Example Sentences

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My father, a World War II officer and stickler for correctness, was especially proud of my medal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

He also said there was a further issue about the "correctness" of new evidence provided by a very senior MI5 officer.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

Comedy led the backlash against political correctness, which Lindy West astutely defined in a 2015 Guardian column as a fancy term for “not treating people who are already treated like garbage like garbage.”

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2024

Let’s begin with the very idea of objective correctness in language.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker