Example Sentences

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He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

He said he didn't want "normality" in his reimagined aristocrats, adding that his designs included some "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste".

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

They do not, however, realize that their wrongness discredits them and shows why people should stop listening to them.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024

So even as the police officer told us these unimaginable, world-breaking things, I was still crawling around in the wrongness of what I’d just done.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson