Example sentences for: correctness

How can you use “correctness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.

  • He denounces political correctness with froth-at-the-mouth language that would be hilarious if it weren't so nasty.

  • However, in my current grumpy and groggy state, I'm in absolutely no mood to discuss political correctness.

  • Increasing literacy and pressures towards `correctness' led in England to spelling-pronunciations which caused speakers to restore a whole range of sounds which earlier generations had dropped, like the l in fault, vault, and soldier; the second w in awkward and the sole w in Edward; the t at the end of pageant, respect, and strict; and the d in the middle of the word London and at the end of husband.

  • He has, for example, cast himself as a guardian of Christian morals and a bulwark against political correctness.


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