Meaning of Wrongness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
   uncountable, usually
2. Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take⟳ drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink⟳. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know⟳, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.”

“It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work⟳ and conversation make⟳ that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have⟳ forgotten the reason⟳, there is spread⟳ over everything a vague sense⟳ of wrongness, of something amiss.”

“But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort⟳ of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind⟳ men practising immorality so long as they own⟳ that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive⟳ Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.”

“1937, Elizabeth Sparks, Interview transcribed in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, Volume 17, Virginia Narratives, Old Massa done so much wrongness I couldn’t tell⟳ yer all of it.”

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