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salacious, obscene, pornographic, dirty, filthy, nasty, Colloq
blue: He has a collection of photos that he calls erotic art.
err v. 1 be wrong, be in error, be mistaken, be inaccurate, be
incorrect, be in the wrong, go wrong, go astray, make a mistake,
miscalculate, (make a) blunder, bungle, botch, fumble, muff,
make a mess of, make a faux pas, mess up , US bobble; Colloq
goof (up), slip (up), drop a clanger, foul up, Brit drop a
brick, blot one's copybook, Slang screw up, Brit boob, Taboo
slang fuck up: The referee erred in ruling that the ball was
out. 2 misbehave, sin, transgress, trespass, lapse, fall, do
wrong: She has erred many times in her long life.
errand n. 1 trip, journey: She was on an errand of mercy. 2 mission,
charge, assignment, commission, task, duty: Francis is out
running some errands for me.
erratic adj. 1 irregular, unpredictable, inconsistent, unreliable,
capricious, changeable, variable; wayward, unstable, aberrant,
flighty: The buses run on an erratic schedule. 2 peculiar,
abnormal, wayward, odd, eccentric, outlandish, strange, unusual,
unorthodox, extraordinary, queer, quaint, bizarre, weird,
unconventional: He thinks that his erratic behaviour marks him
as an individualist. 3 wandering, meandering, directionless,
planetary, aimless, haphazard, discursive, errant, divagatory:
Their course was erratic, following the loss of their compass.
erroneous adj. wrong, mistaken, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact,
imprecise, amiss, awry, false, faulty, misleading, flawed,
botched, bungled, unsound, invalid, untrue, fallacious,
spurious, counterfeit, Colloq off the mark, off course, Brit off
beam, US off the beam: He gives the erroneous impression of
being intelligent. 'Seperate' is an erroneous spelling of
'separate'.
error n. 1 mistake, inaccuracy, fault, flaw, blunder, slip, gaffe;
misprint, typographical error, erratum, solecism; Brit literal,
Colloq slip-up, goof, clanger, fluff, boo-boo, howler, Brit
bloomer, Slang foul-up, boner, Brit boob: I cannot accept a
report so full of errors. 2 sin, transgression, trespass,
offence, indiscretion, wrongdoing, misconduct, iniquity, evil,
wickedness, flagitiousness: He seems to have seen the error of
his ways. 3 in error. a wrong, mistaken, incorrect, at fault: