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.