disastrously wrong
Frequency: 4.00.5 per million words
describes something that is completely and terribly incorrect
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- 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- Their military strategy, based on outdated intelligence, was disastrously wrong.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.