wrongness
Example Sentences
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But one is constantly pulled up by the wrongness of the details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
He said he didn't want "normality" as he reimagined modern-day aristocrats for his second men's collection, adding that his designs included some "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste".
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
Almost always, she said, there is a predictable sequence in which people take-in an eclipse: it begins with a sense of wrongness and primal fear, followed by a feeling of connectedness and insignificance.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
That day she had felt a deep sense of foreboding, an indescribable wrongness that had nothing to do with the way the walls pressed in against the steps upward into the dark room above.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
