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

Inspired by the idea of "today's aristocrats", it featured "angst and a kind of wrongness, engulfing wrong taste", Anderson told reporters, departing from his safer approach last year.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

They do not, however, realize that their wrongness discredits them and shows why people should stop listening to them.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

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

The words dug into me, their truth and their wrongness colliding deep in my chest.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon