fundamentally wrong

Frequency: 7.010.2 per million words

incorrect or mistaken at the most basic level

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Examples (10)

  • Your central assumption is fundamentally wrong.
  • The policy was fundamentally wrong from the start.
  • Many argued that profiting from the crisis is fundamentally wrong.
  • If the data model is fundamentally wrong, no amount of tweaking will help.
  • She realized, years later, that her approach had been fundamentally wrong.
  • Calling dissent unpatriotic is fundamentally wrong in a democracy.
  • The court found the procedure fundamentally wrong and ordered a retrial.
  • His argument seems fundamentally wrong because it ignores the evidence.
  • We reject the plan as fundamentally wrong on ethical grounds.
  • Designing the system around that premise is fundamentally wrong.