Wrongness

//ˈɹɒŋ.nəs//

Synonyms for "wrongness" (57 found)

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Antonyms

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Synonyms

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is a

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Translations

9 translations across 7 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • погрешност noun (the quality of being wrong)

Italian

2 entries
  • erroneità noun (the quality of being wrong)
  • stortura noun (the quality of being wrong)

Latvian

2 entries
  • nepareizums noun (the quality of being wrong)
  • nepareizība noun (the quality of being wrong)

Manx

1 entries
  • meechiartys noun (the quality of being wrong)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • erroneidade noun (the quality of being wrong)

Turkish

1 entries
  • yanlışlık noun (the quality of being wrong)

Ukrainian

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  • помилко́вість noun (the quality of being wrong)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.

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It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss.

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But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind men practising immorality so long as they own that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.

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1937, Elizabeth Sparks, Interview transcribed in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, Volume 17, Virginia Narratives, Old Massa done so much wrongness I couldn’t tell yer all of it.

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