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
"I have seen the arguments in the papers by some lawyers regarding the correctness of some civilians being tried in the Court Martial," President Museveni said in a long post on X.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Isabella Gomez’s Yoli is a mercurial delight, though Calderón Kellett overplays the joke of her character’s political correctness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
And so the two fell to angry looks and hatred, although the elder, being proud of her correctness, would deal only in silent scorn, careful to ignore the other’s very presence.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
