erroneous

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The election night decision of the networks in 2000 to call Florida for Gore -- erroneous, and done even before Florida had closed its polls -- was the single worst intervention in America's elections by the MSM in history.

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  1. adjective Containing or derived from error; mistaken: erroneous conclusions.

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  • Agenda: HF 1171 (Jackson), legislation containing erroneous, ambiguous and omitted text and obsolete references corrected, redundant and conflictin provisions eliminated, technical corrections provided; HF 211 (Swails), statutory housing warranties recovery for breaches regulated; HF 292 (Rukavina), medical marijuana use provided, civil and criminal penalties provided and money appropriated —  Politics in Minnesota - Minnesota's Public Affairs News Service
  • The reports are erroneous, the channel confirmed to SCI FI Wire. —  my new plaid pants
  • "Vote yes" supporters have also submitted a number of misleading, erroneous, and even contradictory assertions about Peak One parcel development. —  Summit Daily News - Top Stories
  • Whenever those stands are erroneous, the Islamic Resistance Movement preserves the right to expound the error and to warn against it. —  East Med Sea Peace
  • I am getting tired of it, so keep that in mind as you publish more crappy, erroneous, and blatantly prejudicial material that attempts to label me a domestic terrorist or violent extremist. —  Infowars
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  1. Middle English, from Latin errōneus, from errō, errōn-, a vagabond, from errāre, to err, wander; see ers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also erronious; from Latin erroneus, wandering about, straying (cf. erro(n-), a wanderer, error, wandering), from errare, wander: see err.
 

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