Wrong meaning

Adjective: wrong

Pronunciation:(róng)

Wrong meaning:

• Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth

Synonyms: incorrect

• Contrary to conscience, morality or law

• Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion

Synonyms: improper

• Not functioning properly

Synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire

• Based on, acting or judging in error

• Not in accord with established usage or procedure

Synonyms: incorrect

• Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward

• Badly timed

Synonyms:timed, unseasonable, untimely

• Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules

Synonyms: faulty, incorrect
Noun: wrong

Pronunciation:(róng)

Wrong meaning:

• That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law

Synonyms: wrongfulness

• Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

Synonyms: legal injury, damage
Verb: wrong

Pronunciation:(róng)

Wrong meaning:

• Treat unjustly; do wrong to

Adverb: wrong

Pronunciation:(róng)

Wrong meaning:

• In an inaccurate manner

Synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly, fallaciously
Derived forms: wronged, wronger, wrongest, wronging, wrongs
Quotations:

1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
2. Anaïs Nin – How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
3. Malcolm X – You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
4. Veronica Roth – You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you’re small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you’re wrong.”He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he’s transmitting electricity through his skin. “My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press.” he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, “But I resist it.” “Why…” I swallow hard. “Why is that your first instinct?””Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating.” He releases me but doesn’t pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. “Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
5. John Green – But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
6. François de La Rochefoucauld – No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
7. Paulo Coelho – Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
8. Cassandra Clare – Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who’s trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
9. Neil Gaiman – She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
10. Cassandra Clare – I know it’s wrong – God, it’s all kinds of wrong – but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

Sample sentences:

1. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness.
2. Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
3. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
4. If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
5. In a way, it’s nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might think that’s just really bad luck; when you’re a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.
6. Must you go? I was rather hoping you’d stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.””I’ll stay,” Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. “I can minister angelically.””None too convincingly. And you’re not as pretty to look at as Tessa is,” Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow.”How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”Jem still had his eyes closed. “If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong.
7. Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?” Will demanded with mock horror. “Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be.” He banged on the side of the carriage. “Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
8. Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
9. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
10. The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
11. I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.
12. Girls are like apples, the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren’t as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
13. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
14. Friendship is the bestest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don’t worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don’t never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action’s are when you see a good friend stick to that person .
15. The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that’s the minute you have to stop because from then on it’s wrong.
16. Wow.” I hadn’t thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. “You beat up your dad. I mean, that’s really horrible…what happened. But, wow. You really are a god.”He blinked. “What?””Uh, nothing.
17. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
18. It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
19. And I might be wrong, but I think she checked to see if both keys were hanging on the wall.
20. Why is that wrong?
21. Somehow, without the wife there, it didn’t seem so wrong.
22. Thanks in part to that wrong attribution, Ad Herennium was the most popular handbook right through to the Renaissance.
23. I stepped forward, and he tensed, probably smelling something was wrong.
24. I’m always using the search function on my computer to find may in my work, because it is often wrong and should be might.
25. In other words, we may gladly stipulate that he got the measurements wrong in the vast majority of cases.
26. To subject people who test positive to stigmas, especially when most of them may be false positives, is counterproductive and wrong.
27. It looked as majestic as ever, but something seemed wrong.
28. We’re the richer for his backing this horse, even if it was the wrong one.
29. Once you do, your fingers fumble and hit the wrong keys.
30. The simple answer is that different from is almost always right, and different than is almost always wrong.
31. When I finished, he announced that I was all wrong and that I should sit down.
32. You needn’t be a mathematician to realize that there’s something wrong statistically if most people do this.
33. It may be, though, that the pushing was tried in the wrong direction.
34. We’re newlyweds and there are just the two of us, so I suppose there’s really nothing wrong with it.
35. A dangling adverb at the front of a sentence is a lot like a horse that’s hitched to the wrong wagon.