Wrong

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  • adjective. Not in conformity with fact or truth; incorrect or erroneous.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Contrary to conscience, morality, or law.
  • adjective. Unfair; unjust.
  • adjective. Not required, intended, or wanted.
  • adjective. Not fitting or suitable; inappropriate or improper.
  • adjective. Not in accord with established usage, method, or procedure.
  • adjective. Not functioning properly; amiss.
  • adjective. Designating the side, as of a garment, that is less finished and not intended to show.
  • adverb. In a wrong manner; mistakenly or erroneously.
  • adverb. In a wrong course or direction.
  • adverb. Immorally or unjustly.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An unjust, injurious, or immoral act.
  • noun. That which is unjust, immoral, or improper.
  • noun. The condition of being in error or at fault.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An invasion or a violation of another's legal rights.
  • noun. A tort.
  • transitive verb. To treat (someone) unjustly or injuriously.
  • transitive verb. To discredit unjustly; malign.
  • idiom. (do (someone) wrong) To be unfaithful or disloyal.
  • idiom. (go wrong) To go amiss; turn out badly.
  • idiom. (go wrong) To make a mistake or mistakes.
  • idiom. (go wrong) To behave immorally after a period of innocence or moral behavior.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In a wrong manner; not rightly; erroneously; incorrectly; amiss; ill.
  • To do wrong to; treat unfairly, unjustly, or harmfully; do or say something injurious or offensive to; injure; harm; oppress; offend.
  • To be the cause of wrong or harm to; affect injuriously; be hurtful to; in an old nautical use, to take the wind from the sails of, as a ship in line with another to windward.
  • To be in the wrong in regard to; view or consider wrongly; give an erroneous seeming to; put in the wrong, or in a false light.
  • Crooked; twisted; wry.
  • Not right in state, adjustment, or the like; not in order; disordered; perverse; being awry or amiss.
  • Deviating from right or truth; not correct or justifiable in fact or morals; erroneous; perverse: as, wrong ideas; wrong courses.
  • Deviating from that which is correct, proper, or suitable; not according to intention, requirement, purpose, or desire: as, the wrong side of a piece of cloth (the side to be turned inward).
  • In a state of misconception or error; not correct in action, belief, assertion, or the like; mistaken; in error.
  • Wrong is in all senses the opposite and correlative of right.
  • Synonyms Unfit, unsuitable, inappropriate, inapposite.
  • Immoral, inequitable, unfair.
  • Incorrect, faulty.
  • noun. That which is wrong, amiss, or erroneous; the opposite of right, or of propriety, truth, justice, or goodness; wrongfulness; error; evil.
  • noun. Wrong action or conduct; anything done contrary to right or justice; a violation of law, obligation, or propriety; in law, an invasion of right, to the damage of another person; a tort: as, to do or commit wrong, or a wrong.
  • noun. Harm or evil inflicted; damage or detriment suffered; an injury, mischief, hurt, or pain imparted or received: as, to do one a wrong.
  • noun. A state of being wrrong or of acting wrongly; an erroneous or unjust view, attitude, or procedure in regard to anything: chiefly in the phrase in the wrong.
  • noun. To suffer the infliction of wrong; have wrong treatment.
  • noun. Synonyms and Sin, Iniquity, etc. See crime.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. of wring. Wrung.
  • adverb. In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
  • transitive verb. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
  • transitive verb. To impute evil to unjustly.
  • noun. Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
  • noun. Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error.
  • Word Usage
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