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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But nothing ever felt quite right. Sarah Henry, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Oct. 2025 That doesn’t feel quite right for a sequence that ends in tragedy, hinging largely on Perfidia’s struggles with postpartum depression and her encounters with the limits of revolutionary political violence. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025 But even during Chelsea’s relative first-half dominance, there were signs that things were still not quite right. Thom Harris, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025 Then Nix and Harvey had a miscommunication that turned into a broken play, followed by a third-down incompletion to Engram that never looked quite right. Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 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 21 Oct. 2025.

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