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Wrongful   /rˈɔŋfəl/   Listen
Wrongful

adjective
1.
Having no legally established claim.  Synonym: unlawful.
2.
Unlawfully violating the rights of others.  "A wrongful diversion of trust income"
3.
Not just or fair.  "A wrongful charge"



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"Wrongful" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind of men should not exist, thou wilt become more kindly disposed towards every one individually. It is useful to perceive this, too, immediately when the occasion arises, what virtue nature has given to man to oppose to every wrongful act. For she has given to man, as an antidote against the stupid man, mildness, and against another kind of man some other power. And in all cases it is possible for thee to correct by teaching the ...
— The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius
... the clergy in Julian's time," said the doctor, "you would have thought the corner stone of Christianity was the right of property, and the supreme crime was the wrongful appropriation of property. But if stealing meant only taking that from another to which he had a sound ethical title, it must have been one of the most difficult of all crimes to commit for lack of the requisite material. When one took away the possessions of the poor it was reasonably certain ...
— Equality • Edward Bellamy
... his master's cart to deliver hot rolls of a morning, runs another man down. The master has to pay for it. And when he has asked why he should have to pay for the wrongful act of an independent and responsible being, he has been answered from the time of Ulpian to that of Austin, that it is because he was to blame for employing an improper person. If he answers, that he ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
... of conveying him home to this country, and perfidiously left him to perish in an unknown land. But then the rich presents of gold and silver given him by Alcinous, which he saw carefully laid up in secure places near him, staggered him: which seemed not like the act of wrongful or unjust men, such as turn pirates for gain, or land helpless passengers in remote coasts to ...
— THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES • CHARLES LAMB
... will not only stand unshaken through trials and discomfiture, but it will draw strength from the very setbacks which it may suffer. A wrongful cause can only stand as long as it is buoyed up ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood


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