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Misconception Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is FALLACY which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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noun

• a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

90%5 Mistake
noun

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• inadvertent incorrectness

• a misconception resulting from incorrect information

• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

• departure from what is ethically acceptable

• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

• part of a statement that is not correct

90%7 An error or blunder
noun

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• an understanding of something that is not correct

• part of a statement that is not correct

verb

• identify incorrectly

• to make a mistake or be incorrect

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