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Example sentences for: correctness
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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.