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inaccurate

/ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/ adjective B2
  1. Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
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There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 88 · C1
Three or four times he has said to me, and certainly without the slightest premeditation, ‘at such a period I was five years old, at another ten years old, at another twelve,’ and I, induced by curiosity, which kept me alive to these details, have compared the dates, and never found him inaccurate.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 448 · C1
The eastern coastline of the newly surveyed peninsula was undeniably inaccurate, curving gracefully inward where it should have protruded outward.
The Cartographer's Apprentice, p. 1 · C1

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