wrang
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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I wrang my hands over these jokes when I began to notice a confluence of them.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2021
Then up bespak his brither John, Says, "Ye've deen us meikle wrang, O; Ye've married een below our degree,55 A lake to a' our kin, O."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
Then I yield—I am but a poor silly woman, liable to mony errors and shortcomings—I maun be wrang, and I yield that it is sae.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
Poor Tibby!—as lang as the heart disna gang wrang, we maun excuse the head, for it'll never aince gang right.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
By my certie, but the chiels were no far wrang.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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