Sentence examples for terribly mistaken from inspiring English sources

"terribly mistaken" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used when someone is completely wrong or has made a grave error. Example: John was terribly mistaken when he thought the exam was next week. It was actually tomorrow.

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"If anybody thought the Republicans were just going to roll over, we were just terribly mistaken," former Senator Tom Daschle, a mentor and an outside adviser to Obama, told me.

There's a lot to unpack in this finale, but if you were expecting carnage, mass casualties and Carrie chasing Team Isis around Berlin for an hour, then you were terribly mistaken.

The Arkansas-Leader calculated that he granted 703 pardons or commutations between 1996 and July 2004--more 2004--more 2004--morell six surrounding sthans combined.For several hundred acts of mercy to include only a couple of cases that, were hissuedht, were terrinly mistalln, isixot a bad record.

The people who suggest, as did Jack Nicklaus, that this is "none of our business," are terribly mistaken.

6. I'd like to know how Obama plans to create new green jobs now -- especially in light of his terribly mistaken spending freeze proposal.

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Solzhenitsyn thought the old revolutionaries were despicable criminals; Grossman prefers to say that, for the most part, they were terribly, tragically mistaken, and most of them paid for it with their lives.

I am always delighted to be mistaken for a company rep, they are terribly glamorous.

"Fulfillment can often be mistaken for 'oh, when I get this thing or reach that goal, I'll be fulfilled.' But that's terribly wrong.

"This was a terribly honest human mistake and I am so regretful".

Which is to say: There's that feeling you get when something goes terribly wrong, when mistakes were made and the Dark Side sometimes steals the reins and it might be a long time before thing improve, stabilize, heal -- but hey, at least they will, right?

It was an enormous and terribly costly and bloody mistake".

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