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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

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Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Psalms 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Psalms 38:19

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

Psalms 69:4

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Psalms 119:86

All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

1 Peter 2:19

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

2 Esdras 11:43

Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the Highest, and thy pride unto the Mighty.

Sirach 34:18

He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not accepted.

1 Maccabees 2:37

But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 15:33

Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had wrongfully in possession a certain time.