What's the difference between unappropriate and wrong?

Unappropriate


Definition:

  • (a.) Inappropriate; unsuitable.
  • (a.) Not appropriated.
  • (v. t.) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conditions for the preservation of the frozen fish in the shops where fish is especially sold are unappropriate--they contribute to the fast deterioration of the quality and the microbial status of the product.
  • (2) If the Burnet's hypothesis of the antieoplastic "immunological surveillance" is strictly interpreted, it would result unappropriate to speak of "immunosuppressive therapy" in malignant hemoblastoses and allied neoplastic diseases, although the treatment of such affections consists of the administration of mostly immune system-depressing agent.
  • (3) At a detention hearing, the government said that Medenbach had tried to protect his campsite with “50 to 100 pounds of the explosive ammonium sulfate, a pellet gun, and what appeared to be a hand grenade with trip wires.” Convicted and given a six-month suspended sentence, Medenbach appealed the case to the federal ninth circuit court, where he argued that federal ownership of unappropriated public lands was unconstitutional.
  • (4) Moreover, it may also be a consequence of unappropriate nutrition, so that it has to be pointed out with emphasis that clinics being able to furnish a great number of ferment analysis should be in a position to answer the simple question: are patients receiving adequate nutrition or not?
  • (5) The main emphasis of this paper is that the unique properties of human intelligence should not be devalued or ignored in attempts to promote machine systems in unappropriate areas.
  • (6) Its manifestations may be various but the diagnosis is established by the presence of hypomagnesemia with an unappropriately high urinary magnesium excretion in patients with no other renal disorder.
  • (7) This situation could be looked unappropriate trying to survive people who are finishing their life.
  • (8) Following Foa's classification of interpersonal resources and Peele's theoretical proposition which describes addiction as an alternative but unappropriate experience, it was hypothesized that drug abusers would express greater need for interpersonal resources than their controls, especially on general wish level, and that they would prefer universalistic--"socially valued" resources like status and money rather than affection and love.
  • (9) It leads to unappropriate level, or delay, of reexcretion of the virus, therefore to the transformation of a rabies epizootics into rabies enzootics.

Wrong


Definition:

  • () 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (2) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (4) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (5) No malignant tumour failed to be diagnosed (100% reliable), the anatomopathological examination of specimens in benign conditions was never wrong (100% reliable).
  • (6) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (7) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
  • (9) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
  • (10) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
  • (11) Mulholland and others have tried to portray the Leeds case in terms of right or wrong.
  • (12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (13) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
  • (14) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (15) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."
  • (16) I can’t hear those wrong notes any more,” she says.
  • (17) "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."
  • (18) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
  • (19) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
  • (20) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".

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