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inconsistent
adjective
Not agreeing with something else or not remaining the same in a reliable way.
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The reviewer found inconsistent spellings of the same name throughout the manuscript.
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.
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inconsistencynoun
A lack of agreement, coherence, or stable adherence to a pattern.
The date on the receipt revealed an inconsistency in the account.
An inconsistency then appeared between a draft claiming the passage was always open and the same team's record of finding it closed.
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