Sentence examples for rather wrong from inspiring English sources

Then it all went rather wrong.

"Things have gone rather wrong in the last few months," he said.

Or rather, wrong ways: there are many different ways to bastardise a bolognese.

What Ecker's work shows, though, is that with the right — or, rather, wrong — headline, reading the article may not be enough.

Coding is 1 = rather, very or totally right vs. 0 = totally, very or rather wrong.

The sun hammered down, the W12's bronchial cackle echoed off the canyon walls and a nagging sensation that the whole scenario was somehow rather wrong only made it feel all the more illicitly right.

The very term Candyland hints at something rather wrong-headed here.

Well, when I read that, I thought I had a pretty good idea who that novelist was, but the next sentence begins "More recently, I was talking to my friend Ian McEwan ... .. which rather wrong-footed me (we learn that McEwan gives his two main characters in On Chesil Beach names from The Good Soldier).

At the same time, the group structure of these injustices does not mean that the group as such is the party that is wronged; rather, the wrongs are ultimately wrongs to the individual persons making up the group.

But I'd rather be wrong.

I would rather be wrong this way".