Example Sentences

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He was wronging a particular person, who has a right to decide whether she wants to continue a relationship with someone who’s betraying her.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

She did not stop to think how much she was wronging Charlie's faithful love.

From The Girls of St. Olave's by Mackintosh, Mabel

Marchmont felt that, if May Gaston wronged him, she was wronging far more herself, and most of all his ideal of her.

From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony

It was wronging the rest of mankind to retain her as the spectacle of only a few.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I began to feel that the whole world was wronging me.

From The Unclassed by Gissing, George