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correctness

[ US /kɝˈɛktnəs/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈɛktnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of conformity to social expectations
  2. conformity to fact or truth

How To Use correctness In A Sentence

  • Premium cable - that is, unsponsored channels you pay for separately - doesn't have those constraints and is free to show us conflicts untempered by political correctness.
  • Now the political incorrectness of lighting up has taken the war on cigarettes from the realm of everyday life to a place where the curtain seems set to fall on the art of smoking in public performances.
  • Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
  • Summarising, political correctness is a one-way street: they may use every form of rudeness but we must treat their concerns as sacred; this must be fought.
  • Ask the investor to check the correctness of what he has written.
  • This fusion of political correctness and relevance may be the next big thing to rock mathematics education, appealing as it does to political activists and to ethnic chauvinists.
  • The design transaction model and high concurrency control mechanism which guarantee correctness and consistency is the key in PDM.
  • Nobody is more free from the ostentatious correctness of the literary precisian, and nobody preserves so much purity and so much dignity of language with so little formality of demeanor. Voltaire
  • Whatever their secret longings, the family organized relentlessly around bourgeois correctness.
  • The drive against political correctness includes plans to revise the curriculum for primary and secondary pupils to correct a perceived bias towards left-wing thinking. Times, Sunday Times
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