disastrously wrong

Frequency: 4.00.5 per million words

describes something that is completely and terribly incorrect

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Examples (10)

  • The initial weather forecast proved to be disastrously wrong, leading to a city-wide crisis.
  • His assumption that the company was stable was disastrously wrong.
  • The expert's prediction about the stock market turned out to be disastrously wrong.
  • Their military strategy, based on outdated intelligence, was disastrously wrong.
  • The calculations for the bridge's load capacity were disastrously wrong.
  • We realized too late that our entire approach to the problem was disastrously wrong.
  • My first impression of him was disastrously wrong; he wasn't kind at all.
  • The political poll was disastrously wrong, predicting a landslide victory for the losing candidate.
  • Early scientific theories about the nature of atoms were often disastrously wrong.
  • Believing you can succeed without any effort is a disastrously wrong mindset.