Definition of wrong

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Wrong (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way..

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Suspicion :: Suspicion (n.) The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence..
Discerner :: Discerner (n.) One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong..
Dispossession :: Dispossession (n.) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster..
Missound :: Missound (v. t.) To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.
Miscounsel :: Miscounsel (v. t.) To counsel or advise wrongly.
Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong..
Compunctive :: Compunctive (a.) Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.
Misnomer :: Misnomer (n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title..
Evil :: Evil (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity..
Apology :: Apology (n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret..
Injurious :: Injurious (a.) Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.
Possible :: Possible (a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong..
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed..
Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations..
Anachorism :: Anachorism (n.) An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.
Possession :: Possession (n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful..
Post :: Post (a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
Misconstruct :: Misconstruct (v. t.) To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
Mismate :: Mismate (v. t.) To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple..
Misdo :: Misdo (v. i.) To do wrong; to commit a fault.
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