Sentence examples for scarcely wrong from inspiring English sources

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Broyard was scarcely wrong to say that Vonnegut's reputation suffered a blow with each new book; he is a classic example of a writer whose renown endures through the success of a single novel.

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Under such generous awnings and rubrics, the curator can scarcely go wrong.

Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic — lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed — as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong.

When she compounds her crime by stealing Rose's first man in years, she flees her sister's wrath and takes refuge with the grandmother neither knew she had, which introduces a third powerhouse actress: Shirley MacLaine.After making scarcely a wrong move for the first hour, Curtis Hanson, the director, rarely makes a right one.

Capitalising on its opponents' every mistake, it put scarcely a foot wrong throughout.

Even more amazingly it scarcely puts a foot wrong throughout.

In his astonishing ascent to power the president-elect has scarcely put a foot wrong.

He was unable to unsettle Hussey who, after his first-ball good fortune, scarcely put a foot wrong.

In the final he replaced the suspended Khaled Badra in central defence and scarcely put a foot wrong, and there can be no complaints about his temperament either.

He drove beautifully, picked off the short balls square of the wicket, clipped off his toes and scarcely put a foot wrong.

Although he was promoted only two weeks before he took over and has no political experience, he scarcely set a foot wrong during the very public diplomatic encounters at the funeral.In this section Is it crime or culture?

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