Similar words: correct, incorrect, correctly, corrective, correction, politically correct, political correctness, correlated. Meaning: [kə'rekt] adj. 1. having something undesirable neutralized 2. punished for misbehavior.
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1) Such ingrained prejudices cannot be corrected easily.
2) He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
3) A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch.
4) She doesn't like having her pronunciation corrected.
5) 'It's Yates, not Wates,' she corrected him.
6) The father harshly corrected his child for disobedience.
7) I corrected my watch by the time signal.
8) Tom has not nearly corrected his shortcomings in work.
9) A squinting eye can be corrected by surgery.
10) The mother corrected the disobedient child.
11) 'She's in Ireland now.' 'She was,[http://sentencedict.com/corrected.html]' Farrell corrected him.
12) Yes, you're right-I stand corrected .
13) I stand corrected - the date of foundation was 1411, and not 1412 as I had written.
14) Students said it was helpful if the teacher corrected their pronunciation.
15) We have now corrected the error in our computer records which resulted in our letters to you being misaddressed.
16) Students were allowed to hand in corrected work again for reassessment.
17) Most of the errors were corrected at the proofreading stage.
18) Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a laser.
19) Oh, well, I stand corrected, ladies.
20) He becomes annoyed or discouraged if corrected too often.
21) Twenty minutes wasted, he thought, then corrected himself.
22) Oliver corrected the clock and set it in motion.
23) Or her mouth shut, Trent corrected himself.
24) Nancy doesn't take kindly to being corrected.
25) These disturbances are usually quickly corrected as society evolves.
26) Celia corrected the mistakes with a pen.
27) Copies of the lists were posted so that omissions could be corrected.
28) There's a lot of misinformation about AIDS that needs to be corrected.
29) When the poet stumbled over a line in the middle of a poem, someone in the audience corrected him.
30) 'You're wrong about the date-it was 1988.' 'I stand corrected .'
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