wrongness
- a word derived from wrong.
Example Sentences
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He said he didn't want "normality" as he reimagined modern-day aristocrats for his second men's collection, adding that his designs included some "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste".
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
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
“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 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
But as he did so he could sense the wrongness, the dual consciousness of one of the people within.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
