How to use inconsistency in a sentence

More sentences with inconsistency

• Starting with a couple of inconsistencies, the detective began to pull apart his alibi.From the entry pull apart
• There are Mendelian inconsistencies in the data.From the entry mendelian
• This is the ideal case for bothsidesists who will point out the inconsistencies.2022 December 27, John Q, “Why the (US) right is always wrong … and how both-sidesists help to ensure this”, in Crooked Timber. From the entry bothsidesist
• Readers and bloggers alertly picked up on the nuances of language, and what some called the inconsistencies.2011 May 11, Arthur S. Brisbane, “The Other Torture Debate”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2011. From the entry pick up on
• Small errors in and inconsistencies between the apparatûs of previous editions have been corrected and verified.2008, Andrew Faulkner, “Introduction”, “VII. Manuscripts and Text”, “3. Text and apparatus criticus”, in The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite…. From the entry apparatûs
• Wilson doesn’t see any inconsistency between his socialism and his predilection for the high life.2001 March 13, Marina Cantacuzino, “On deadly ground”, in The Guardian. From the entry predilection
• Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint. From the entry conflate
• This working hypothesis, although a good idea at the time, led to a number of inconsistencies.1968, Donald D. Clayton, Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis. From the entry working hypothesis
• Choose the translation that attributes fewer invalid inferences or inconsistencies to the translatees.1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object. From the entry translatee
• Regarding the inconsistencies or orthotypographic errors identified in the sample, these have been detected in 21 sites (78%).2020, Noor Hazlina Ahmad, Qaisar Iqbal, Hasliza Abdul Halim, editors, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in Industry 4.0, IGI Global…. From the entry orthotypographic
• Trilling is wonderful on Keats's appetitiveness and its connection to the maternal, but his essay has a psychological inconsistency approaching incoherence.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry appetitiveness
• Bearing this understanding in mind, I felt stuck, thinking it would be an inconsistency to manualize a process which is intended to minimize instruction.2022, Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals, page 551. From the entry manualize
• Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.2019 July 4, Stirling Coates, “The Roar's AFL expert tips and predictions: Round 16”, in The Roar. From the entry tip
• These large discrepancies must stem from inconsistencies in interpretation rather than the possibility that one crew was constantly drawing more balking pitchers than another.2013, Peter E. Meltzer, So You Think You Know Baseball?, page 107. From the entry balking
• Let's be honest about the horseburger thing: public outrage is based on an essentially irrational inconsistency about which animals we eat and which we don't.2013, James Kirkup (The Daily Telegraph), Horseburgers: it's OK to eat horses, but remember to say thank you. From the entry horseburger
• Editors, focused on the apparent inconsistencies in the way Horatio is represented, might seem to suggest that he is also not a textworthy character.1994, Hamlet studies. From the entry textworthy
• Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire.1992, Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry other
• Lenin's Marxist tendencies were underscored by his beliefs in state capitalism and the inconsistency of socialist democracy with the rule and dictatorship of one individual.1925, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Bukharin, Lenin as a Marxist, Communist Party of Great Britain, page 7. From the entry Marxist
• It is clear that what was once seen as an inconsistency, is actually an eclatant example of one of the most systemic characteristics of the system.2014, Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić, “The Unending Transition”, in Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of…. From the entry eclatant
• So the deconstructionist practises what has been called textual harassment or oppositional reading, reading with the aim of unmasking internal contradictions or inconsistencies in the text.2002, Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, page 72. From the entry textual harassment
• Defaults can also be used to handle inconsistencies resulting from the combination of different perspectives and views of people developing a large software system, i.e. in the viewpoints framework.2000, Sofia Guerra, “Distance Functions for Defaults in Reactive Systems”, in Teodor Rus, editor, Algebraic Methodology and Software…. From the entry viewpoints framework
• On account of its inherent ambiguity (and the resulting inconsistency of its application) and negative associations, it is a label which it is hardly possible or useful to terminize.1999, Linguistica Pragensia - Issue 2, page 28. From the entry terminize
• Our mutual silence served as a way to deal with the status inconsistency of a house wife with a B.A. hiring a ABD to clean her house.1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6. From the entry abd
• Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A…. From the entry unsaid
• The logical inconsistency of "begrieving" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner. From the entry begrieve
• This inconsistency caused one learner to misexecute one and then the other of these two operations in a dismal cycle of negative transfer as illustrated in Table 6.1987, Ronald M. Baecker, William A. S. Buxton, Readings in Human-computer Interaction, page 290. From the entry misexecute
• As the alternative norms and counterevidences are uncovered, it is the evaluator's task to determine inconsistency, contradiction, and subterfuge, and then to render his own verdict.1975, Edward Kelly, “Curriculum Evaluation and Literary Criticism: Comments on the Analogy”, in Curriculum Theory Network, volume 5…. From the entry counterevidence
• It is a remarkable fact that, so far as I can judge, no case of local inconsistency, not a single anatopism, can be brought home to the Iliad.1921, John Anthony Scott, The Unity of Homer. From the entry anatopism
• Each of their roles is so loaded with slickery, inconsistency and lowbrow intellectualisms, along with slapstick gaggery on which one can but gag, that the waste of talent is depressing.1972, New York Magazine, volume 5, number 23, page 61. From the entry gaggery

Meaning of inconsistency

1. noun The state of being inconsistent.
2. noun An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.

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Questions about inconsistency in a sentence

How do you use inconsistency in a sentence?

Inconsistency is used as a noun. For example: “Starting with a couple of inconsistencies, the detective began to pull apart his alibi.”

What is a short sentence with inconsistency?

“There are Mendelian inconsistencies in the data.”

What does inconsistency mean?

Inconsistency means the state of being inconsistent.