Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wrongly.
- To make wrong.
- Not right; unrighteous; unjust; wrong.
- noun That which is unright or not right; wrong; injustice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not right; wrong.
- noun obsolete A wrong.
- transitive verb obsolete To cause (something right) to become wrong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic That which is not right;
wrong ;injustice . - verb transitive To make wrong.
- adjective Not
right ;unrighteous ;unjust ;wrong . - adverb archaic or obsolete
Wrongly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This world-girdling accumulation of trained morals, high principles, and justice, cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an ungenerous thing, an unclean thing.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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This world-girdling accumulation of trained morals, high principles, and justice, cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an ungenerous thing, an unclean thing.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The time is right, but he seems to be unright for the time.
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But if this leadership is unright, we cannot impose it upon them.
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The time is right, but he seems to be unright for the time.
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And I wasn't -- I was referring to one of my most esteemed colleagues, who is currently our ambassador in Germany and was my succes -- deputy and successor, and who -- whose career was beginning to languish, unright -- wrongly so.
To End a War 1998
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What Mr. Crews does instead is to rip out illiberal, unright-thinking utterances from a number of novels, in order to convict Updike of "classbased misanthropy."
Updike's Version Pritchard, William H. 1987
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The boy sat bolt unright, careless of his half-nakedness in a cell stony and chill, and held him by the wrist with strong, urgent fingers, staring earnestly into his eyes, probing beyond into his mind, and not afraid of him, or even wary.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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The boy sat bolt unright, careless of his half-nakedness in a cell stony and chill, and held him by the wrist with strong, urgent fingers, staring earnestly into his eyes, probing beyond into his mind, and not afraid of him, or even wary.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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The people there use to harbour no guests, they be warriors, and drink men's blood that they slay, and wash first their faces therewith: right and unright they take for one ....
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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