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单词 inconsistency
释义
inconsistencyin‧con‧sis‧ten‧cy /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/ AWL noun (plural inconsistencies) Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The team's inconsistency on defense has lost them three games.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Even commentators sympathetic to the government saw the inconsistency of this plan.
  • He saw no inconsistency between disfranchisement techniques and the Fifteenth Amendment.
  • Hence, they failed to recognize the inconsistency between their espoused motivations for management and how they derived satisfaction from work.
  • I have halted all pending foreclosure sales until they can be further reviewed for discrimination or inconsistency in program delivery.
  • Is this a pedantic inconsistency, or does it reflect something more consequential?
  • Justice Anthony M.. Kennedy jumped in and attacked Davis at one point for the inconsistency of his rhetoric and logic.
  • Sometimes, register inconsistency produces unintended pastiche and humour, in the same way that direct imitation of published styles can.
  • Whatever the complexities of Hobbes's personal motivations, there was no theoretical inconsistency in all of this.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 There were several glaring inconsistencies (=very noticeable differences) in his report.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· The chances are that he will see his inconsistency and revise his moral views, either exonerating Smith or condemning himself.· He saw no inconsistency between disfranchisement techniques and the Fifteenth Amendment.· Even commentators sympathetic to the government saw the inconsistency of this plan.
1[uncountable] when someone keeps changing their behaviour, reactions etc so that other people become confused OPP  consistency2[countable, uncountable] a situation in which two statements are different and cannot both be true SYN  contradiction:  There were several glaring inconsistencies (=very noticeable differences) in his report.inconsistency between Defence counsel looks for inconsistency between witness statements.
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