wrong
adjective
not in accordance with what is morally right or good.
wrongness
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a word derived from
wrong.
Example Sentences
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But one is constantly pulled up by the wrongness of the details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
“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
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
