"not quite expected" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when something is not the same as it was expected to be. For example, "Although his classroom performance had improved, his test results were not quite expected."
Gay women are expected to be unfeminine, even masculine, so for a female athlete to be gay is, if not quite expected, then definitely not far off.
Mr. Kelleher, who said this will most likely be his last campaign, win or lose, said one big downside of being the nominee was all the hard work he had not quite expected.
Looking forward to facing Raith Rovers in the next round, McLaren added: "In a way we'll be in the Hurlford position where we'll be the team that's not quite expected to go through".
I was pleased by her presence, which I had not quite expected.
For population PV, whose genotype sample derived from several landraces and varieties from Northern Italy, lack of sub-population structure was not quite expected.
BANKERS are not quite expecting a wave of copy-cat mergers across Europe.
They came with still-broken hearts and photographs of the dead, seeking answers they did not quite expect to receive.
But after three weeks, the governor and his aides have noticed something they did not quite expect: New Yorkers, it seems, do not want to visit them.
So who knows, maybe that may lead to something we're not quite expecting".
Michael's Genuine Pub, with fare designed by chef Michael Schwartz, offered us everything we were craving -- and not quite expecting -- on a cruise ship: craft beers, polenta fries, deviled eggs, and homemade potato chips, just to name a few.
He looked startled, not quite expecting his visitors that early in the morning.
