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The phrase "be amiss" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something is not quite right, or something has gone wrong. For example, you could say, "It would be amiss to forget our anniversary this year."
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I can't imagine that anything they reported would be amiss".
He declined to say what appeared to be amiss.
Another is that something more serious may be amiss.
However, a little civility would not be amiss.
When he came out strongly in favor of hydrogen, people suspected something must be amiss.
It would not be amiss to call these transfers welfare payments.
It was some of her own faithful readers who first suggested something may be amiss.
Didn't they notice as she reached, oh, 220 pounds that something might be amiss?
What could be amiss?Then a Qingdao assistant coach gestured for the keeper to come forward from the penalty area.
"Significant outside intervention, therefore, may not be necessary; however, gentle encouragement from Pretoria is unlikely to be amiss.
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