Shak.
4. Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right;
mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
5. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a
garment or of a piece of cloth.
Syn. — Injurious; unjust; faulty; detrimental; incorrect; erroneous;
unfit; unsuitable.
Wrong, adv. In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill;
erroneously; wrongly.
Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.
Pope.
Wrong, n. [AS. wrang. See Wrong, a.] That which is not right.
Specifically: (a) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority,
divine or human; deviation from duty; — the opposite of moral right.
When I had wrong and she the right.
Chaucer.
One spake much of right and wrong.
Milton.
(b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error;
as, to be in the wrong. (c) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude;
usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts
injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a
trespass; a violation of right.
Friend, I do thee no wrong.
Matt. xx. 18.
As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but
in his courts and by his courts.
Milton.
The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of
paying a debt.
E. Evereth.
Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs are civil
injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes
and misdemeanors which affect the community. Blackstone.
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Wrong (?; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wronged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Wronging.]
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold
some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly
with; to injure.
He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul.
Prov. viii. 36.
2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base
act, you wrong me.
I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will
wrong such honorable men.
Shak.
Wrong"do`er (?), n. 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
2. (Law) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort
feasor. Ayliffe.
Wrong"do`ing, n. Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Wrong"er (?), n. One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of
the world." Tennyson.
Wrong"ful (?), a. Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a
wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. — Wrong"ful*ly, adv. —
Wrong"ful*ness, n.
Wrong"head` (?), n. A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate
character. [R.]
Wrong"head`, a. Wrongheaded. [R.] Pope.
Wrong"head`ed, a. Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse
understanding; perverse. — Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. — Wrong"head`ed*ness,
n. Macaulay.
Wrong"less, a. Not wrong; void or free from wrong. [Obs.] —
Wrong"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Wrong"ly, adv. In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss;
as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win."
Shak.
Wrong"ness, n. The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness;
error; fault.
The best great wrongnesses within themselves.
Bp. Butler.
The rightness or wrongness of this view.
Latham.