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wrongful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wrongful has 3 senses
- wrongful(s = adj.all) unlawful - having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne" Derived form noun wrongfulness1
- wrongful(s = adj.all) Array - unlawfully violating the rights of others; "wrongful death"; "a wrongful diversion of trust income" Derived form noun wrongfulness1
- wrongful(s = adj.all) Array - not just or fair; "a wrongful act"; "a wrongful charge" Derived form noun wrongfulness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
wrongful, a.
Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wrongful, adj.
1 characterized by unfairness or injustice.
2 contrary to law.
3 (of a person) not entitled to the position etc. occupied.
1 characterized by unfairness or injustice.
2 contrary to law.
3 (of a person) not entitled to the position etc. occupied.
Derivative
wrongfully adv. wrongfulness n.
THESAURUS
wrongful
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wicked, wrongROGET THESAURUS
wrongful
Wrong
N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.
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