Definition of wrong

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Wrong (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right..

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Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..
Anachronize :: Anachronize (v. t.) To refer to, or put into, a wrong time..
Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
Misbede :: Misbede (v. t.) To wrong; to do injury to.
Misapplication :: Misapplication (n.) A wrong application.
Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..
Misdeal :: Misdeal (n.) The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..
Missummation :: Missummation (n.) Wrong summation.
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease..
Misrender :: Misrender (v. t.) To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.
Misalter :: Misalter (v. t.) To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse..
Misnurture :: Misnurture (v. t.) To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children..
Mistune :: Mistune (v. t.) To tune wrongly.
Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another..
Crime :: Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong..
Insanity :: Insanity (n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility..
Wrong :: Wrong (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
Misallotment :: Misallotment (n.) A wrong allotment.
Misworship :: Misworship (v. t.) To worship wrongly.
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