inaccurately

From inaccurate +‎ -ly or in- +‎ accurately.

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inaccurately (comparative more inaccurately, superlative most inaccurately)

1. In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
   • 2009 February 22, Walter Kirn, “Insult as Injury”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.

• accurately

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inaccurately”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “inaccurately”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.