wrongness — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. The quality of being wrong; error or fault.

   Usage

   • indénombrable
   • usually

   Exemples

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   Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.

   It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss.

2. Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.

   Usage

   • indénombrable
   • usually

   Exemples

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   But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind men practising immorality so long as they own that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.

   1937, Elizabeth Sparks, Interview transcribed in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, Volume 17, Virginia Narratives, Old Massa done so much wrongness I couldn’t tell yer all of it.

Nom

1. inappropriate conduct

   Synonymes

   inappropriateness

   Termes génériques

   improprietyimproperness

2. contrary to conscience or morality

   Antonymes

   rightness

   Termes génériques

   immorality

3. the quality of not conforming to fact or truth

   Synonymes

   incorrectness

   Antonymes

   rightness

   Termes génériques

   quality