Irregularities
[,ɪrɛgjə'lærəti]
Definition
(pl. ) of Irregularity
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Examples
- New York was inexorable in its condemnation of business irregularities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Leverrier at the request of Arago had undertaken to investigate the irregularities in th e tables of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I seemed to be lying in a deep, circular basin, along the outer verge of which I could distinguish the irregularities of low hills. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- All such irregularities must be summarily punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It may be the office has helped to cover some of his canonical irregularities. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Around this the suns keep their orbits harmoniously, all apparent irregularities arising from our eccentric view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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