(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".
Wronghead
Definition:
(n.) A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
(a.) Wrongheaded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any connection to terrorism and serious crime is wrongheaded of course, as any application to access phone records when such activity is suspected would be waived through by any judge.
(2) The second set of considerations is practical, and it is here that the campaign feels especially wrongheaded.
(3) At least there is more consistency to Osborne’s position, though on the economy it is still wrongheaded .
(4) Harding described such criticism as “wrongheaded” but admitted that this latest initiative might look like the BBC trying to “cosy up” to the papers just as it is looking for support for the renewal of its royal charter and the licence fee.
(5) "I think it's wrongheaded and will ultimately be self-defeating.
(6) This is a wrongheaded notion which assumes that the citizen is a fool and that political success depends on playing to this folly.
(7) Labour's attacks on Cameron and his team as inexperienced, wrongheaded public school boys were concerted and an obvious attempt to get revenge for John Major's defeat of Neil Kinnock in 1992.
(8) Cameron said: “The eagerness to pass the buck is not just wrongheaded and hypocritical, it also allows extremism to flourish.
(9) Donald Trump travel ban 'simplistic and wrongheaded', says former CIA chief Read more The removal of the CIA liaison had immediate consequences, sources said.
(10) One either goes for the realistic approach, which means that scenes filmed outside spacecraft are screened silently, or one opts for the completely wrongheaded (but significantly less soporific) method in which large objects smashing together in space create exciting explosion noises.
(11) Paul Stephens, a fellow at Chatham House thinktank, said in a research paper the oil “majors” were no longer fit for purpose – hit by low crude prices, tightening climate change regulations and their own wrongheaded strategies.
(12) It is wrongheaded and I don’t think it would enhance the security of our country.” Asked if he thought the ban would be counterproductive for US security, Brennan said: “I do, because a lot of citizens from those countries who have very legitimate reasons to travel to the US are really going to see this as reflecting a very different tone from the US … To me, I think they’re going to see that as profiling specific nationalities.” He was also dismissive of the Trump administration’s preference for the term “radical Islamic terrorism” in describing what it sees as the principle threat to the US.
(13) This forced academisation programme is wrongheaded of itself, but in the context of the very tough and difficult decisions that headteachers are facing it is making their job impossible because they are going to have to spend time and money engaging lawyers and consultants to change their [school’s] legal status.” The issue is also concerning a number of Conservative MPs who fear the speed at which the reforms, which were announced in the recent budget, are likely to be implemented.
(14) Duncan acknowledged today that some of the prepared guidance for school officials included a suggestion that students could compose essays stating how they could help support Obama — an idea the education secretary acknowledged was wrongheaded.
(15) He said the health and social care bill, currently going through parliament, was based on "wrongheaded ideology" that "put the patient not first, but last".
(16) She is strongly pro-Europe, and says: “Our future should be as an open, outward-looking country leading the reform of Europe, not the wrongheaded and damaging isolationism of Labour’s past.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kendall during a hustings in Glasgow.