wrongful
Americanadjective
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unjust or unfair.
a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
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having no legal right; unlawful.
The court ruled it was a wrongful diversion of trust income.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unwrongful adjective
- unwrongfully adverb
- unwrongfulness noun
- wrongfully adverb
- wrongfulness noun
Etymology
Origin of wrongful
Example Sentences
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By my 30s, I was comfortably situated in yet another trusted cohort, supporting my activist friends on things we all cared about: reproductive rights, wrongful convictions, freedom for Palestine.
Glover is being sued for an unspecified amount of damages over allegations of battery, fraud and wrongful eviction, among other counts.
From Los Angeles Times
Under international law, there is no distinction between a state carrying out the attack and those which have supported that state, if the latter has "knowledge of the circumstances of the internationally wrongful act".
From BBC
Salmond was suing the government for misfeasance - a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority - when he died in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia.
From BBC
Camille has taken over the living room, where she’s researching how to file a wrongful termination lawsuit in Illinois.
From Literature
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