Sentence examples for thoroughly wrong from inspiring English sources

"thoroughly wrong" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when something has been proven to be completely mistaken or wrong. For example, "The experts concluded that the earlier theories about cosmic expansion were thoroughly wrong."

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He may have been right — if thoroughly wrong to oppose gay-rights for that reason.

That meant Hugo from time to time having to bite his tongue as the Guardian's leader columns preached what he believed was misguided or even thoroughly wrong.

The thing the doom-mongers got most thoroughly wrong was their conviction that interaction would change the structure and character of television programmes.

Giovanni Sartori, professor of humanities at Columbia University and professor emeritus at the University of Florence, concluded that while he did not completely agree with her, "Oriana Fallaci must be right, since her accusers are thoroughly wrong".

How did the intelligence agencies get such a basic, vital question so thoroughly wrong?

"The New York Times story shows just how thoroughly wrong The Washington Post has been," Sauber said.

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But he has been thoroughly wrong-footed by his cherubic challenger.

It finally snapped when Massadio Haïdara's cross took a deflection off Sadio Mané and, with Maarten Stekelenburg thoroughly wrong-footed, Papiss Cissé chested in the close-range equaliser.

Further, utilities are required under federal law to purchase independently generated power, much of it at astronomical prices based on past projections of "avoided costs" set forth by regulators themselves (and all thoroughly wrong--recall those dire predictions of $100 per barrel oil and bone-dry natural-gas spigots in less than ten years?).

But even as Republicans looked forward, party leaders said they also needed to examine thoroughly what went wrong in the 2012 campaign and find ways to strengthen the nuts and bolts of their organization and broaden their appeal.

In it, Arnauld presents his own position on the nature of ideas, which was described above, and argues that Malebranche's view that we see all things (or at least all bodily things) in God and by means of God's ideas is not only mistaken, but thoroughly confused and wrong-headed.

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