304 adjectives to describe errors

Our country has paid very dearly for the fatal error which overthrew the throne of the King who had for eighteen years governed it with a wisdom, prudence, and moderation acknowledged even by his enemies when attacking him.

These words have by a curiously gross error been dropped out in all editions save the 4to 1687.

The supposition that this snake prefers a file to any other species of nourishment is a vulgar error, and belongs to the same mendacious category as the stories that ostriches are fond of ten-penny nails and soldiers of hard tack.

He may have committed grave errors, for he was not infallible.

"What I said was a 'roguish' smile; but there's been a typographical error which Miss Briggs must have overlooked in reading the proof.

"It is evident that there must be some fundamental error on one side or the other," "for the laws of nature are uniform, and there cannot be one code for astronomers, and one for geologists."

Mahomet now perceived the grievous error which he had committed, and the prudent foresight of his son Al Raxid.

They may, I say, have made slight errors in unimportant matters, though it is far more probable that those errors have crept into the text, as the Scriptures were copied again and again through many centuries by different scribes, of whose perfect good sense and honesty we cannot be certain.

THOREK, MAX. Surgical errors and safeguards.

This is an obvious error.

If a wrong entry were discovered, it might of course have been due to some clerical error, though that is hardly probable considering the care spent in making these records, or it might have been a tailless comet, or possibly the newly found planet.

We say the sun is 91,000,000 miles from the earth, plus or minus a probable error; that is, we are right, probably, within, say, 100,000 miles; or, the sun is 91,000,000 minus 100,000 miles, or it is 91,000,000 plus 100,000 miles off; and this probable error is only a probability.

And we are happy to observe in the present publication, that the masculine sense, by which Miss Burney is distinguished, has raised her almost wholly above these little errors.

In our anxiety lest we err on the side of grandiloquence we may perhaps fall into the opposite error of tameness.

Moreover Ambrose saw in Arianism a hostile creed,a dangerous error, subversive of what is most vital in Christianity.

Nature, when uninterrupted, will often do more than art; but our inability upon all occasions to appreciate the efforts of nature in the cure of diseases, must always render our notion, with respect to the powers faith, liable to numerous errors and deceptions.

In reading the early letters of Jackson, however, it is clear that they are anything but illiterate, whatever mistakes in spelling and grammatical errors there may be.

Among these his father, Lucius Quinctius, who bore the surname of Cincinnatus, without dwelling too often on his services, so as not to heighten public hatred, but soliciting pardon for his youthful errors, implored them to forgive his son for his sake, who had not given offence to any either by word or deed.

Here, however, a frequent error must be guarded against, that of covering up the infant in its cot with too much clothing throwing over its face the muslin handkerchiefand, last of all, drawing the drapery of the bed closely together.

There is a palpable error of the transcribers in the numbers which we find in our present manuscripts of Arrian, and Curtius is of no authority.]

I would not know too muchtoo much to smile At trivial errors of the heart and hand, Nor be too proud to play the friend the while, Nor cease to help and know and understand.

And thus, his aversion to many intellectual errors, or what he regarded as such, partook, in a certain sense, of the character of a moral feeling.

This matter of hoarding tobacco may be a sad error.

In this field the weakness, both of the Initiative and of the Compulsory Referendum, is that they are based upon a radical error as to what constitutes the true difficulty of wise legislation.

The river proved to be fresh, and in pools separated by rock flats, and is evidently the same that Dr. Leichhardt supposed to be the Alberta mistake which has caused considerable error in the maps of his route; as it was not named, I called it the Leichhardt.

304 adjectives to describe  errors