do wrong
Example Sentences
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It’s about how easily grievance turns into permission—how feeling wronged starts to look like a reason to do wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
SW: I have always been defence-minded, so my first thought is always, "What did the defence do wrong?"
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
James Comey, the FBI director fired by Trump in 2017, kept a framed FBI letter requesting a wiretap on Dr. King in his office as a "reminder of the bureau's capacity to do wrong."
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
“Yeah he’s hard on me but he lets me know what I do wrong and how to fix it. He’s taught me everything about the game and being a good person.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2024
It was never my intention to do wrong, and so generally I thought I was in good stead with the Almighty.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
