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
I aye tak' my cue, as it were, frae her, though I dinna tell her that; an', where colour is concerned, whether in papers or bonnets, I never think she's far wrang.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
But, troth, 'twere wrang to gar ye sup yer kail A wee thocht hetter than I wud mysel':— Air—"Laird o' Cockpen."
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
The veriest "de'il"—as Burns says—"wad look into thy face and swear he could na wrang thee."
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
"An by the vestments, may be I wouldn't be far wrang, if I said it was the crathur that took me there, seein I can't deny it iny way, your haner."
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
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