Definition of "wrong" []

• Not in conformity with fact or truth; incorrect or erroneous. (adjective)
• Contrary to conscience, morality, or law; immoral or wicked. (adjective)
• Unfair; unjust. (adjective)
• Not required, intended, or wanted: took a wrong turn. (adjective)
• Not fitting or suitable; inappropriate or improper: said the wrong thing. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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• "Government in doing good, provided we can do so without at the same time aiding it in the wrong it perpetrates, this must mean, of course, that it is right to aid and obey a Government _in doing wrong_, if we think that, on the whole, the Government effects more good than harm."
• "It is wrong, _dead wrong_, to start, or carry along, on the opposite track, and try to persuade men to do the right thing, by dwelling on the awful consequence of doing the wrong thing."