Wrong Roget’s Thesaurus §923 N. wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, # malum in se, unreasonableness,
grievance, shame, injustice,
tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play,
partiality,
leaning,
bias, favor,
favoritism,
nepotism, party spirit,
partisanship,
bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice) 945,
unlawfulness, robbing peter to pay paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
V. be wrong, cry to heaven for vengeance, do wrong, be inequitable, favor, lean towards, encroach upon, impose upon, reap where one has not sown, give an inch and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile, rob peter to pay paul
Adj. wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair,
inequitable,
unequitable, unequal, partial,
one-sided, injurious,
tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,
unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified,
illegal,
iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box
Adv. wrongly
Phr. it will not do
N. lawlessness, # illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity,
arbitrariness,
antinomy, violence, brute force,
despotism,
outlawry, mob law,
lynch law, club law, lydford law,
martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum,
illegality,
informality,
unlawfulness,
illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion,
smuggling,
poaching,
simony, outlaw, bad man, v, offend against the law, violate the law, infringe the law, break the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute, ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands,
smuggle, run,
poach Adj. illegal, unlawful,
illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited,
illicit,
contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial,
extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary,
despotic,
despotical, corrupt, summary,
irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable,
expired,
invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated
Adv. illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law