Sentence examples for err badly from inspiring English sources

If your cause is strong enough, you should have no fear of pointing out when it, or its leaders, err – and err badly.

Now my teammate erred badly.

He errs badly, and philosophical drama becomes human tragedy.

If true, it suggests that Thomas erred badly in acquiring two lumbering big men over a span of 20 months.

The People's Party leader, Wolfgang Schussel, erred badly in imagining that the Freedom Party could be a respectable coalition partner.

"Lee has erred badly and on reflection may realise that he has damaged the image of the game of cricket," wrote Hadlee.

The judge said the Texas courts erred badly in the last week when they refused to hire mental health experts to determine whether Mr. Wood was mad or to appoint a lawyer to represent him at a competency hearing.

With one to go, this was the position: Notice that West erred badly by discarding his last two spades; he should have thrown clubs and kept spades under control to take the pressure off his partner.

In going along with such a nutty and ill-thought-out plan, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, erred badly — but he wasn't the one who came up with it.

In the Democratic contests alone, they underestimated the breadth of Mr. Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses, erred badly in Mrs. Clinton's surprise victory in New Hampshire and again miscalculated how much Mr. Obama would win by in South Carolina.

A surge on Wall Street might have been a sign that the Fed had erred badly.Financial analysts who had been betting on an interest-rate cut of half a point or more need a history lesson or an economics lesson or, preferably, both.