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wrong
adjective as in incorrect
Strongest matches
amiss, awry, bad, erroneous, false, inaccurate, misguided, mistaken, unsound, untrue
Strong matches
erring, fluffed, goofed, miscalculated, misconstrued, mishandled, out
Weak matches
askew, astray, at fault, counterfactual, defective, erratic, fallacious, faulty, in error, inexact, misfigured, not precise, not right, not working, off-target, on the wrong track, out of commission, out of line, out of order, perverse, rotten, sophistical, specious, spurious, ungrounded, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, wide
adjective as in immoral, dishonest
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base, corrupt, criminal, crooked, debauched, depraved, dissipated, evil, profane, profligate, reprobate, wanton
Weak matches
amoral, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, censurable, dishonorable, dissolute, felonious, illicit, indecent, iniquitous, naughty, risqué, sacrilegious, salacious, shady, smutty, ungodly, unholy, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, wrongful
adjective as in inappropriate, not suitable
Strongest matches
amiss, bad, funny, ill-advised, improper, incorrect, unacceptable, unhappy
Strong matches
Weak matches
awkward, disproportionate, gauche, inapt, incongruous, indecorous, infelicitous, malapropos, not done, rotten, unbecoming, unconventional, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsuitable
adverb as in astray
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
afield, askew, badly, erroneously, inaccurately, mistakenly, unfavorably
noun as in offense, sin
Strongest matches
abuse, bias, blunder, crime, error, evil, grievance, harm, inequity, injustice, insult, misdeed, mistake, prejudice, slight, transgression, violation, wrongdoing
Strong matches
cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, favor, hurt, immorality, imposition, indecency, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdemeanor, misdoing, oppression, persecution, sinfulness, slander, spite, tort, trespass, turpitude, unfairness, vice, villainy, wickedness
Example Sentences
They might disagree, yet that doesn’t make either of them wrong.
Bannon has a healthy ego himself, but he's not wrong that it's really stupid politics for Trump to saddle up with Musk, who is now going after Social Security and Medicare.
“Deputy Gardner was terminated for doing no wrong,” Miller wrote in this week’s legal complaint.
The 16-year-old added: "It's just provocative. It's promoting the wrong attention, not the right thing to do."
Prof O'Neill said an external investigation would also be conducted into "what went wrong."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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