Definition of "irregularity" []

• The quality or state of being irregular. (noun)
• Something irregular: found the firm's books riddled with irregularities. (noun)
• Constipation. (noun)

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• "As Shelley scholar Neil Fraistat assures me, this claim of "irregularity" is rare if not unique in Shelley's work."
• "The spokesman, however, said that although the vote tally affected by such an irregularity is over 3 million, "it has yet to be determined whether the amount is decisive in the election results," reported Khabaronline."
• "But irregularity is even more prominent in Wordsworth's prosody."