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Example sentences for "quite wrong"

  • He was still acting on the principle, that advice given in Confession might afterwards be publicly repudiated as quite wrong; he failed somehow to see that the case of marriage of uncle and niece was of its very nature something public.

  • You may be quite right, and I may be quite wrong; but pray go and see him," persisted Mrs. Armadale.

  • I am quite wrong, it seems, if the nurse's authority is to be trusted, in believing Miss Milroy to be responsible for sending Mr. Armadale to my reference in London.

  • You are quite right, sir," he said, "and I am quite wrong.

  • I may be quite wrong, but unless you can hit upon a better plan, I don’t see that you can do better than—hook it.

  • I might think I knew what you were feeling, and I might be quite wrong.

  • Moreover, Braid himself clearly shows in his action photographs that such a statement as this is quite wrong.

  • It is quite wrong to say that the first thing to consider is some particular idiosyncrasy which a man may have picked up by chance.

  • It may turn out that I am quite wrong, and that there are no x's or 20 x's.

  • I may be quite wrong, and in that case I know I shall have to pay the penalty for being wrong.

  • Quite wrong in mixing up two things; Doctor Thorne as an acquaintance, and Dr Thorne as a doctor.

  • I tell you, Tiernay, you 're quite wrong; this gentleman will breakfast here.

  • Quite wrong there, my Lord," said Linton, with the same imperturbable temper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acted upon; another gospel; his eyes; our work; quite another; quite ashamed; quite capable; quite clear; quite correct; quite dead; quite enough; quite good; quite modern; quite naked; quite natural; quite near; quite ready; quite satisfied; quite smooth; quite the; quite unable; quite variable; quite well; sheet iron; that each; total depravity