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See definition of inexactness on Dictionary.com
  • as infallacy
  • as ininaccuracy
  • as inspeciousness
  • as inspuriousness

synonyms for inexactness

  • deception
  • falsehood
  • heresy
  • inconsistency
  • misinterpretation
  • paradox
  • untruth
  • aberration
  • ambiguity
  • artifice
  • bias
  • casuistry
  • cavil
  • deceit
  • deceptiveness
  • delusion
  • deviation
  • elusion
  • equivocation
  • erratum
  • erroneousness
  • error
  • evasion
  • faultiness
  • flaw
  • illogicality
  • invalidity
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • misconstrual
  • mistake
  • notion
  • perversion
  • preconception
  • prejudice
  • quirk
  • solecism
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • speciousness
  • subterfuge
  • non sequitur
  • quibbling

antonyms for inexactness

MOST RELEVANT
  • truth
  • accuracy
  • certainty
  • conformity
  • correction
  • directness
  • facing
  • fairness
  • frankness
  • honesty
  • meeting
  • openness
  • reality
  • sameness
  • truthfulness
  • evidence
  • fact
  • right
  • surety
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How to use inexactness in a sentence

There is no need to weary readers with a complete list of Mr. MacCarthys exhibitions of inexactness.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. I (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
The concern of Practical Logic is chiefly with forms of proposition that favour inaccuracy or inexactness of thought.
LOGIC, INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVEWILLIAM MINTO
He must have no hazy impressions, no unthinking mind, no ill-defined ideas, no inexactness.
PUBLIC SPEAKINGCLARENCE STRATTON
There is always a slight degree of inaccuracy in definition by synonym, sometimes a large margin of inexactness.
PUBLIC SPEAKINGCLARENCE STRATTON
The substance is given, but the inexactness of the copy shows that the words could not have been dictated by Omniscience.
WHO WROTE THE BIBLE?WASHINGTON GLADDEN
Here take notice that we only say it is not exact, for we believe it at bottom to be true, although not free from inexactness.
FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, VOL. I (OF 2)JAIME LUCIANO BALMES
In all our operations upon these data, we are liable to mistakes of calculation, but no error can arise from inexactness of data.
FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, VOL. I (OF 2)JAIME LUCIANO BALMES
Investigators are then apt to become loud in their complaints of its inexactness.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL THEOLOGYWILLIAM JACKSON
His phrase seemed to admit inexactness in the epithet "mistress."
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINWILLIAM DE MORGAN
Inexactness of observation is sure sooner or later to be detected, and to be visited on the head of the man who commits it.
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, MARCH 1899VARIOUS
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