Use the adjective wrong to talk about something that is factually incorrect. You thought your paper was due a week from Friday, but you were wrong. It's due tomorrow. Better start typing!
imp. of
Noun
a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right
Noun
that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law; "he feels that you are in the wrong"
Verb
treat unjustly; do wrong to
Adjective S.
not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "unsuitable attire for the office"; "said all the wrong things"
Adjective
not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
Adjective
based on or acting or judging in error; "it is wrong to think that way"
Adjective S.
badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
Adjective S.
used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward; "socks worn wrong side out"
Adjective S.
not conforming with accepted standards of propriety or taste; undesirable; "incorrect behavior"; "she was seen in all the wrong places"; "He thought it was wrong for her to go out to work"
Adjective S.
not in accord with established usage or procedure; "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"
Adjective
contrary to conscience or morality or law; "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
Adjective S.
not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"; "the facts as reported were wrong"
Adverb
in an incorrect manner; "she guessed wrong"
imp. of Wring. Wrung.
a.
Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.
a.
Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or
human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right;
deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not
legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and
desires.
a.
Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for
an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper;
incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the
wrong way.
a.
Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent;
not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
a.
Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of
a garment or of a piece of cloth.
adv.
In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill;
erroneously; wrongly.
a.
That which is not right.
a.
Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or
human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
a.
Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity;
error; as, to be in the wrong.
a.
Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that
involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person;
any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation
of right.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable
of a base act, you wrong me.
Wrong
Wrong
I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places.4.
Wrong
Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.
Wrong
When I had wrong and she the right.
One spake much of right and wrong.
Friend, I do thee no wrong.
As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but in his courts and by his courts.
The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of paying a debt.
Wrong
He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul.2.
I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
imp. of
Twisted; wry;
In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
That which is not right.
Usage Examples
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.
A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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