Sentence examples for strictly wrong from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'strictly wrong' is not technically correct and should not be used in written English.
The correct phrase to use is 'absolutely wrong'. For example, "It was absolutely wrong of him to treat her that way".

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Such thinking, James said, isn't strictly wrong, but extremely wrongheaded, since all thoughts and feelings, including those of the medical materialists themselves, are "organically conditioned" and thus equally prey to being dismissed.

The lawyers may not be strictly wrong – it is thought that there's nothing currently in US copyright law that states tattoos aren't subject to the same protections as any other works of art.

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It may be wrong, strictly speaking, to label Henry Lee Jackson – who performed under the name Big Bank Hank, and who has died aged 58 following cancer treatment – as a pioneering rapper.

Theories and models are also seen as more or less useful rather than strictly right or wrong, and that knowledge of world is fundamentally elusive and uncertain.

It does not need to be anything strictly right or wrong, but minor things, like you would have chosen another type of drug".

He may not, strictly, have done anything wrong, but it doesn't matter: he will get punished," Mr de Paula said.

And guilt and self-blame, the taking on of responsibility where one has strictly speaking done no wrong, becomes a way of coping with that harder-to-uncover feeling of shame, and its companion feelings of impotency and helplessness.

To his credit, though, he explained the whole thing step by step in front of the cameras later on, and the handball aside, there was, strictly speaking nothing really wrong with the goal ("a free-kick three, four, five metres away from the foul is still within the referees' discretion and tolerable," he said), nor with his handling of the aftermath.

Strictly speaking, nothing is wrong with this photo.

I want to be perfectly clear that I don't see anything wrong with strictly sexual non-monogamy so long as it's genuinely fulfilling and consensual for all involved, including the outside partners.

Strictly speaking, both publications are wrong.

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