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wrong
adjective as in incorrect
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amiss, awry, bad, erroneous, false, inaccurate, misguided, mistaken, unsound, untrue
Strong matches
erring, fluffed, goofed, miscalculated, misconstrued, mishandled, out
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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
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amiss, bad, funny, ill-advised, improper, incorrect, unacceptable, unhappy
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awkward, disproportionate, gauche, inapt, incongruous, indecorous, infelicitous, malapropos, not done, rotten, unbecoming, unconventional, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsuitable
adverb as in astray
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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
Drivers tackling the madness of westside traffic leading to or from the tangled 405 Freeway will surely empathize with Buggy Bear who looks as if he’s one wrong turn away from having a traffic-induced meltdown.
In fact, ever since that 2024 winter of discontent, news conferences, articles and the narrative of pretty much every game they have played has been dominated by what had gone so badly wrong before.
People who knew the family were perplexed at what went wrong.
In his own letter to the judge ahead of his sentencing Friday, Combs said he was taking “full responsibility and accountability” for his “past wrongs,” and apologized for the pain he’s caused others.
Nonetheless, Ortega was already thinking about law school after noticing that former classmates of his from Nogales High were “going into the system … and I thought one wrong turn and I could’ve been there myself.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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