wrongness

Example Sentences

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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

He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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

Focusing on that constant wrongness has ironically helped me to keep perspective and reinforced how this state of affairs cannot last forever because such systems almost always collapse inward on themselves.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024

And that wrongness clung to her, like a headache that she couldn’t shake.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill