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wrong

[rawng, rong]

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adjective

not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.

deviating from truth or fact; erroneous: a wrong answer.

not correct in action, judgment, opinion, method, etc., as a person; in error: You are wrong to blame him.

not proper or usual; not in accordance with requirements or recommended practice: the wrong way to hold a golf club.

out of order; awry; amiss: Something is wrong with the machine.

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not suitable or appropriate: He always says the wrong thing.

(of clothing) that should be worn or kept inward or under: You're wearing the sweater wrong side out.

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noun

that which is wrong, or not in accordance with morality, goodness, or truth; evil: I committed many wrongs.

an injustice: The wrongs they suffered aged them.

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an invasion of another's right, to his damage.

a tort.

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Wrong is always a great word to know.

So is collusion. Does it mean:

a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement

a formal and specific claim by a plaintiff for damages

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adverb

11.

in a wrong manner; not rightly; awry; amiss: You did it wrong again.

verb (used with object)

12.

to do wrong to; treat unfairly or unjustly; harm.

13.

to impute evil to (someone) unjustly; malign.

Idioms

14.

get in wrong, Slang. to cause to come into disfavor: We are forever getting in wrong with the people next door.

15.

go wrong,

to go amiss; fail: Everything is going wrong today.

to pursue an immoral course; become depraved: Bad friends caused him to go wrong.

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in the wrong, to blame; in error: He knew he was in the wrong but refused to concede the point.

Origin:
before 1100; (adj.) Middle English wrong, wrang, Old English wrang, perhaps < Old Danish wrang; compare Danish vrang wrong, Old Norse rangr awry; (v. and adv.) Middle English, derivative of the adj.; (noun) Middle English; Old English wrang, derivative of the adj.; akin to wring

Related forms

wrong·er, noun

wrong·ly, adverb

wrong·ness, noun

qua·si-wrong, adjective

Can be confused: wrong, wrongful.

Synonyms
1. bad, evil, wicked, sinful, immoral, iniquitous, reprehensible, crooked. 2. inaccurate, incorrect, false, untrue, mistaken. 6. improper, unsuitable. 8. misdoing, wickedness, sin, vice. 12. maltreat, abuse, oppress, cheat, defraud, dishonor.

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Example Sentences

It is wrong to look down on other faiths on the grounds that their creeds are erroneous.

Our students are not wrong in the content of their protests on behalf of education.

Frogs may signal that something's wrong in the environment.

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It is wrong to look down on other faiths on the grounds that their creeds are erroneous.

Our students are not wrong in the content of their protests on behalf of education.

Frogs may signal that something's wrong in the environment.

Planet hunters have discovered the biggest new world yet and it is going the wrong way around its home sun.

Three quarters of folks who experienced similar events can't be that wrong.

Then one day he happened to mention this to an older gardener and found out he was growing the wrong variety.

Everything you know about starting a company is wrong.

Most literature on why students leave doctoral programs asks what's wrong with the student.

Eruç's not bothered by the hard work or even being blown the wrong direction.

He should not have been trying to prove deniers wrong or right.

The writer got it wrong in the text and the caption writer may not have known better.

They need some winter chill, yet must be spared from frosts at the wrong time.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to have a personal brand.

Everything looked possible-but everything went wrong.

In the early years, only crystallographers knew that there was something wrong with the three papers.

The old myth that leaning how to do crossword puzzles makes you smarter is wrong.

If you think a little carrot wouldn't take long to clean, you'd be wrong.

If you're concerned about forecasts of long-term global warming, you might be worried about the wrong thing.

If your colleague or doctor fudge the answer or get insulted, you may have the wrong partner.

If there is one persistent gripe that paleontologists have with dinosaurs on screen, it is that their hands are usually wrong.

Follow their guidelines in your own garden and you can't go wrong.

So people think it is wrong to use animals for any kind of tests and they even think eating them is wrong.

But the drawing of the pyramid pointing down is clearly wrong.

These are precisely the same characteristics that sound so wrong in old time music.

Margo, on the other hand, only wanted to know what was wrong with her.

Conservationists know what's wrong with the bay and how to fix it.

If some fact or study doesn't quite agree with your idea of how things should be, then it is obviously wrong.

They're the ones that can tell when something's wrong.

Julie's website is actually http://juliecreightonnet/ the link within the story is wrong.

Lay the hemmed square on your work surface with the wrong side facing up.

Sharkey's fear is that unmanned technology could fall into the wrong hands.

There is so much that is wrong here that it is difficult to know where to start.

So what's wrong with it to be out of the country for six or more years and then returned to its country of origin.

Full of soul, it's the kind of music you gotta dance to-unless there's something wrong with you.

Yet even at the time, there were whispers that the cadaver brought home in glory might be the wrong one.

Three quarters of the population agrees that we're headed the wrong way, but they don't agree about why.

They are wrong when they present that as a reason for inaction".

We've all used a fishy metaphor in the past, but use the wrong one and you can look pretty stupid.

But there's no wrong time of day for fried cake, whether it comes in the form of.

It's easy to dump ire on anlysts for getting it wrong so often.

Rising costs test families' faith, while one in three presidents see academe on the wrong road.

And maybe that's its problem-it's so good-looking that it masks all that's wrong with it.

The wrong turn, the misread map, the must-see natural wonder.

And, of course, trying to prove their professor wrong is an added attraction.

Remember that the card on the bottom of the deck is facing the wrong way.

The economy may not have hit rock bottom, but the finger-pointing over what went wrong is well under way.

Enthusiasm about hydrogen-fueled cars may give the wrong impression.

Sometimes a belief becomes so strong that suggesting it might be wrong is nearly impossible.

The problem is it is doing it in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Your clock will be two or three weeks wrong in the spring.

But today he was on the wrong story, the wrong balcony, the wrong side of the building.

Sometimes scientists get it wrong and have to revise the conventional wisdom they helped create.

If sleeping, the dogs were allowed to lie-unless they barked up the wrong tree.

Journalists are fired all the time for taking the wrong political stance.

When something goes wrong you can refuse to believe.

But they have a dark side: when the wrong forms of.

He was the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Some squirrels have remembered various traffic patterns so that they never cross the road at the wrong time.

The textbook view that the earth spent its first half a billion years drenched in magma could be wrong.

There are no right or wrong answers for this activity.

By providing wrong but matching views and feelings, scientists mentally.

Einstein has become such an icon that it sounds sacrilegious to suggest he was wrong.

Evaluate success based on how they explained why they were right or wrong.

Much of what you thought you knew about dinosaurs turns out to be wrong.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong in science with putting forth bold hypotheses that ultimately turn out to be wrong.

Peterson also presents evidence that mammals can distinguish right from wrong.

They r not called bunions u moron do a little more research on this disease and u'll find out ur wrong.

For now, the data remain preliminary-subtle signs that something may be wrong with our standard understanding of the universe.

Most of the articles were about what is wrong with this and that aspect of the family.

The balance is wrong for an animal that would attack other animals.

It is for example psychology which could teach that when one is doing something bad on purpose she or he gets a wrong reward.

And the conclusions or hypothesis that come out of this kinds of studies are almost always proved wrong in the future.

Nothing can possibly go wrong go wrong gowrong gowronggowronggowronng.

It remains to be seen whether his famously gloomy prediction is truly wrong or merely postponed.

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World English Dictionary

wrong (rɒŋ)

—*adj*
1.	not correct or truthful: the wrong answer
2.	acting or judging in error: you are wrong to think that
3.	(postpositive) immoral; bad: it is wrong to cheat
4.	deviating from or unacceptable to correct or conventional laws, usage, etc
5.	not intended or wanted: the wrong road
6.	(postpositive) not working properly; amiss: something is wrong with the engine
7.	(US) (of a side, esp of a fabric) intended to face the inside so as not to be seen
8.	informal get on the wrong side of, get in wrong with to come into disfavour with
9.	go down the wrong way (of food) to pass into the windpipe instead of the gullet

—*adv*
10.	in the wrong direction or manner
11.	go wrong
	a. to turn out other than intended
	b. to make a mistake
	c. (of a machine, etc) to cease to function properly
	d. to go astray morally
12.	get wrong
	a. to fail to understand properly
	b. to fail to provide the correct answer to

—n
13.	a bad, immoral, or unjust thing or action
14.	law
	a. an infringement of another person's rights, rendering the offender liable to a civil action, as for breach of contract or tort: a private wrong
	b. a violation of public rights and duties, affecting the community as a whole and actionable at the instance of the Crown: a public wrong
15.	in the wrong mistaken or guilty

—vb
16.	to treat unjustly
17.	to discredit, malign, or misrepresent
18.	to seduce or violate

[Old English wrang injustice, from Old Norse vrang; see wring]

'wronger

—n

'wrongly

—*adv*

'wrongness

—n

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Word Origin & History

wrong

late O.E., "twisted, crooked, wry," from O.N. rangr, earlier *wrangr "crooked, wry, wrong," from P.Gmc. *wrangaz (cf. Dan. vrang "crooked, wrong," M.Du. wranc, Du. wrang "sour, bitter," lit. "that which distorts the mouth"), from PIE *wrengh- "to turn" (see wring). Sense

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of "not right, bad, immoral, unjust" developed by c.1300. Wrong thus is etymologically a negative of right (from L. rectus, lit. "straight"). L. pravus was lit. "crooked," but most commonly "wrong, bad;" and other words for "crooked" also have meant "wrong" in It. and Slav. Cf. also Fr. tort "wrong, injustice," from L. tortus "twisted." Wrong-headed first recorded 1732. To get up on the wrong side (of the bed) "be in a bad mood" is recorded from 1801.

wrong

"that which is improper or unjust," c.1100, from wrong (adj.). Meaning "an unjust action" is recorded from c.1200.

wrong

"to do wrong to," early 14c., from wrong (adj.).

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

wrong

see back the wrong horse; bark up the wrong tree; do someone wrong; get someone wrong; get up on the wrong side of bed; go wrong; in the wrong; on the right (wrong) foot; on the right (wrong) tack; right (wrong) side of the tracks; rub the wrong way; take the wrong way; two wrongs do not make a right.