inexactlyadv.
In an inexact or inaccurate manner; not with perfect correctness.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [adverb]
at rebours?a1400
unjustlyc1425
wrongly1633
outa1641
inaccurately1669
unaccurately1674
uncorrectly1706
unprecisely1806
inexactly1849
à rebours1895
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 421 He [William of Orange] spoke and wrote French, English, and German, inelegantly, it is true, and inexactly, but fluently and intelligibly.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. 34 All through the life~long process of learning one's ‘mother-tongue’, one is liable to apprehend wrongly, and to reproduce inexactly.
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