What's the difference between unproper and wrong?

Unproper


Definition:

  • (a.) Not proper or peculiar; improper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hospital death occurred in one patient with unproperly increased pulmonary blood flow by central shunt.
  • (2) For continuation of the DNA synthesis after an incorrect deoxynucleotide addition, replicase must take two more mistakes in succession: to retain the incorrect nucleotide and to join the next one to this unproperly arranged primer.
  • (3) Vomiting was most commonly seen side-effect in young children, thus suggesting that either dose, or the chemical form of the drug for this group of age was unproper.
  • (4) The latter, according to the authors, resulted from an incomplete or unproper interpretation of diseases symptoms influenced by several objective factors.
  • (5) To name it pneumocytoma would be unproper and a possibility of vascular tumorous character could not based on respectable analogies.
  • (6) The main causes of suicidal attempts were the unproper familial and educational environment, the lack of close relations with members of family, the lack of adequate reference patterns of social roles, the lowered resistance against difficult situations and the tendency to impulsive actions in a part of subjects studied conditioned biologically.
  • (7) However, unproper sampling in excessively atrophic areas and structural "myogenic" changes can made the bioptic diagnosis difficult or impossible.
  • (8) The increase of the activity of alkaline phosphatase in 9 months old experimental sheep is the result of disturbances in Calcium-Phosphorus balance due to unproper mineral feeding.

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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