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inconsistent

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Not agreeing with something else or not remaining the same in a reliable way.

The reviewer found inconsistent spellings of the same name throughout the manuscript.
Dictionary practice example.
In a practice debate about a fictional reading room, two statements were contradictory: one said every desk had a lamp, while the other said that one desk had no lamp at that same time. The speaker's later count was also inconsistent with the inventory she had accepted earlier.
From Testing an Argument.
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