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Meaning of wrongo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Synonym of wrong 'un (“dishonest or disreputable person”).

slang

Examples

“On Nixon's side, if you were not for us, you were against us; on the extreme anti-Nixon side, if you were for him, you were a wrongo; on the pro-Nixon zealot's side, a wrongo had no rights.”
“They kept pretty much to themselves, a difficult thing to do on a boat designed for overall togetherness extending to monkeys, marmosets, parrots and a four-foot alligator. He—the man, not the alligator—looked like a wrongo.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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