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
“These offenses are built around the intent to do wrong and I had no intent, no knowledge of us doing anything wrong at the time,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 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
When I go on about what Sheffield Wednesday do wrong and you look at an example of how they should do it, then I look at the way Brighton go about their business.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 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
