Sentence examples for supposedly wrong from inspiring English sources

Moreover, this argument is dangerously redolent of that lousy old Marxist trope of "false consciousness", whereby people enthusiastically following the supposedly wrong cause are only a speech or poster away from enlightenment, and a sharp left turn.

Not because he particularly cares about it (his own barnet is these days unremarkable: short, blonde-ish, and slightly curly) but because, over the years, it has become a globally recognised symbol of everything that's supposedly wrong with both him, and the power-ballads he inflicts on the record-buying public.

The battle over Hewlett-Packard's claim that it was bamboozled when it bought Autonomy, a British software company, has been long on angry rhetoric and short on details about the accounting that was supposedly wrong and led to an $8.8 billion write-down.

Why should our minds be kept in a perpetual state of uselessness and mediocrity?….No reason could possibly justify the belief that what is infinitely admirable in itself is supposedly wrong and criminal in ourselves" [FI, p.432].

They say they don't like therapy because it's focused on problems and what's supposedly wrong with them.

While all models are supposedly wrong, some are useful [ 89].

It's too easy to find City traders and commentators who are critical of the decision to ban short-selling, so here goes: Allister Heath (@AllisterHeath) Why is there supposedly something wrong with a market when prices fall, but nothing wrong when they rise?

I was a teenager when the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, and I remember even then – even without any concept of slut-shaming, any feminist counternarrative to guide me – having no understanding whatsoever of what this woman supposedly did wrong.

In a truly Kafkaesque twist, she could not even find out why her home had been targeted or what she had supposedly done wrong.

For example, a boy from India in his early twenties who'd been kept there for almost a day, surviving on water and chips, because something had supposedly been wrong with his student visa.

By the time I came to this work in 2006, when I asked people what they knew about what Bailey had supposedly done wrong, the majority told me that he had had sex with a research subject.