Sentence examples for quite the wrong from inspiring English sources

It was a jewellery cabinet, producing quite the wrong effect.

Ah, Mr Powell explained, that was again quite the wrong interpretation of the email.

It turns out, alas, that the episode sets the tone of what follows in quite the wrong way.

Quite the wrong thing to say within a corporation under pressure to prove that it can fulfil its remit in terms of minority communities.

So heavy does the shadow of Prohibition still hang that any suggestion you might need "a stiff drink", even occasionally, risks creating quite the wrong impression.

Deficient in either charisma or sense of inner conflict, her performance of both "Maybe This Time" and the title number is painful in quite the wrong ways.

"In my view, in hindsight, that was quite clearly the wrong decision.

But having said this, Ms. Portman is quite simply the wrong target.

In fact, that can happen quite frequently--the wrong question opening a door, leading to the solution to the mystery.

And some smoking opponents fear that a choice has been made -- with obesity the winner, quite possibly for the wrong reasons.

The prime minister has quite simply addressed the wrong priorities at the wrong time and has failed the challenge of leadership.