Sentence examples for painfully wrong from inspiring English sources
'painfully wrong' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe something that is not just wrong, but wrong to a significant or painful degree. For example: "His diagnosis was painfully wrong, leaving the patient in a worse state than before."
Even the foreign secretary can get it painfully wrong by jumping to conclusions.
David Gedge has spent years in the Wedding Present, writing well-turned songs about the ways love can go painfully wrong.
As with another American shibboleth gone painfully wrong in recent years — the virtues of owning your own home — now is the time for action to change unsustainable, outdated concepts of postsecondary education in this country.
Sitting in a restaurant not far from her Crown Heights home last week, Ms. Maynard talked about a life that began to go painfully wrong in the winter of 1987, when she hurt her back while working as a secretary at a doctor's office in Flatbush.
Seeing Cilla launch a dentally challenged 'come hither' look on poor ex-EastEnder Michael Greco was a sight almost as painfully wrong as the banned 'geriatric sex' scenes from Little Britain With 'my Bobby' gone five years now, Cilla has had to get on with life on her own.
But that assumption proved to be painfully wrong.
Are you deluded enough to think you are? She'll spare no effort in slowly, painfully proving you wrong.
First Michael Kinsley, then Charles Lane, weigh in with defenses of austerity that aren't just wrong, but painfully ill-informed.
It's the kind of lead that might tempt a campaign to begin to take victory for granted – at least the campaign of a candidate not so painfully familiar with the wrong side of a primary upset.
We should face the fact that there is no perfectability in human affairs, Smith insists in her lecture, so we have to have the strength to accept that things will often go wrong, often painfully, and occasionally amid mass horror.
Unfortunately, as in the case of Michael Jackson, the world has painfully learned how horribly wrong the perverted doctor patient relationship can go.
