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Miss Wrong

Miss Wrong noun: an unsuitable female companion, especially a wife.

Noun

Miss Wrong (plural Miss Wrongs or Misses Wrong)

  1. (humorous, idiomatic) An unsuitable female companion, especially a wife.
    • So, even a woman who’s also unmarried, 33 maybe, who needs only one good divorce to really get started, considers me a bad risk. I can’t even find Miss Wrong.1978 November 29, Ed Butler, “In Search of Miss Wrong”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    • Typically, the patient who is always attracted to Mr. Wrong or Miss Wrong reports a series of romantic rejections while failing to see any pattern.1982 January 18, Georgia Dullea, “The Pattern of Picking the ‘Wrong’ Partner”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul...
    Antonyms:
    Miss Right

Examples of Miss Wrong in a sentence

  • Right, but his interests were focused elsewhere, usually on Miss Wrong, […] And then, one day, after being used and abused by Miss Wrong, Mr.1998 May 29, Lawrence Van Gelder, “‘Broadway Damage’: Mr. Right Finally Finds a True Love: Plain Dwayne”, in The New York Times, New York...
  • How am I to believe Gemma is Miss Right when there are millions upon millions of possible Miss Wrongs to check first?2011, Jon Richardson, “19.54: Fiesta time”, in It’s Not Me, It’s You!, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 87:

Antonyms of Miss Wrong

Forms of Miss Wrong

pluralMiss Wrongs
pluralMisses Wrong
alternative formMs Wrong
alternative formMs. Wrong

Questions about Miss Wrong

What does Miss Wrong mean?
Miss Wrong means an unsuitable female companion, especially a wife.
How do you use Miss Wrong in a sentence?
Right, but his interests were focused elsewhere, usually on Miss Wrong, […] And then, one day, after being used and abused by Miss Wrong, Mr.
What part of speech is Miss Wrong?
Miss Wrong is a noun.
What is the plural of Miss Wrong?
The plural of Miss Wrong is Miss Wrongs.

Words near Miss Wrong in the dictionary

  1. miss the wood for the trees
  2. miss the woods for the trees
  3. Miss Thing
  4. Miss Things
  5. Miss Waldron's red colobus
  6. Miss Wrong
  7. Miss Wrongs
  8. miss'd
  9. Miss'ippi
  10. miss-meal colic
  11. MISS.

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