quite right
idiom
chiefly British
—used to say that one thinks someone did the right thing
"After I was treated so rudely, I complained to the management." "And quite right, too!"
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Beautiful, but too refined, too wet-looking, not quite right.
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Mila Jaroniec, Allure, 3 Sep. 2025
This confirmed my notion that we were supposed to look for shapes, but that wasn’t quite right.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Maybe that’s not quite right, but this powerful 1970s duet featuring the big man and Ellen Foley on vocals and some play-by-play announcing is a testament to the more amorous and ultimately regrettable uses some folks have put their automobiles through.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
But that’s not quite right, says Joseph Yoon, the head of consumer insights at Edmunds.
—Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
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Mila Jaroniec, Allure, 3 Sep. 2025
This confirmed my notion that we were supposed to look for shapes, but that wasn’t quite right.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Maybe that’s not quite right, but this powerful 1970s duet featuring the big man and Ellen Foley on vocals and some play-by-play announcing is a testament to the more amorous and ultimately regrettable uses some folks have put their automobiles through.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
But that’s not quite right, says Joseph Yoon, the head of consumer insights at Edmunds.
—Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for quite right
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“Quite right.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quite%20right. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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