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Miss Wrong
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English
Alternative forms
en Ms Wrong Ms. Wrong
Noun
+ Misses Wrong Miss Wrong
en idiom jocular An unsuitable female companion, especially a wife.
en Miss Right
en Mister Wrong
29 November 1978 Ed Butler In Search of Miss Wrong https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/29/archives/metropolitan-diary-musing-the-owl-in-search-of-miss-wrong-the.html 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.
18 January 1982 Georgia Dullea The Pattern of Picking the ‘Wrong’ Partner https://web.archive.org/web/20130722160118/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/style/the-pattern-of-picking-the-wrong-partner.html 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.
29 May 1998 w:Lawrence Van Gelder ‘Broadway Damage’: Mr. Right Finally Finds a True Love: Plain Dwayne https://web.archive.org/web/20020222054011/https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/052998damage-film-review.html Plain Jane loved Mr. Right, but his interests were focused elsewhere, usually on Miss Wrong, And then, one day, after being used and abused by Miss Wrong, Mr. Right suddenly realized Miss Right had been there all along.
en 27 March 2001 S.T. Pickrell The Rules alt.romance https://web.archive.org/web/20260325123714/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.romance/c/qlvVh26uebc/m/30BYGk9GhswJ Whilst searching for Miss Right, enjoy yourself with the Misses Wrong.
en 2011 w:Jon Richardson 19.54: Fiesta time It’s Not Me, It’s You! London HarperCollinsPublishers 87 https://archive.org/details/outofmytidymindi0000rich_n8z7/page/87/mode/1up 978-0-00-741494-9 How am I to believe Gemma is Miss Right when there are millions upon millions of possible Miss Wrongs to check first?