wrongs 1 of 2

noun

plural of wrong
1
as in evils
that which is morally unacceptable any reasonable person should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong

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2
as in injustices
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this trying to right all the wrongs in the world

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wrongs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wrong
as in harms

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Recent Examples of wrongs
Noun
So did two wrongs make a right? — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 16 June 2026 Which just goes to show three wrongs don’t make a right. — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 28 May 2026 Which just goes to show three wrongs don’t make a right. — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026 So that's an exceptionalism that in quite severe terms suggests sacrifice to right wrongs. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 June 2026 Chris Young's journey to his college commencement could be a college course on resilience, redemption, righting his wrongs and the wrongs righted for him. — Steve Pickett, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Employers are liable for legal wrongs their employees commit within the scope of their employment under a doctrine called respondeat superior. — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026 Brian Kilmeade views the semiquincentennial as an opportunity to reflect on the nation's founding courage and vision, while Lawrence Jones highlights America's continuous improvement despite past wrongs. — Mark Joyella, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Another one-and-done series, The CW's Good Cop/Bad Cop was a comedic procedural starring Luke Cook and network vet Leighton Meester as sibling detectives trying to right the wrongs of their crooked-cop father, played by Clancy Brown. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrongs
  1. evils
  2. injustices
  3. harms
  4. bad
  5. victimizes
  6. sins
  7. torments
  8. tortures
Noun
  • During the War for Independence, the tribe saw the British as the lesser of two evils.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • So please get ready for a choice of evils.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of evils
Noun
  • The Hanna’s Town Resolves, a document signed along Forbes Road in 1775 by citizens of Westmoreland County, protested the injustices of the British Parliament.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
  • Voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression are the injustices the VRA was designed to correct.
    — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
Definition of injustices
Verb
  • Uthmeier does deserve credit on other consumer issues, notably involving hospital pricing, artificial intelligence safety and investigating CVS Health over whether its pharmacy benefit manager affiliate harms consumers by improperly favoring CVS drug stores.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • The elite college admissions process has become a trial that harms our children.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of harms
Noun
  • In addition to public goods, AI will also create public bads.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 8 June 2026
  • Naturally, the meeting is a flop because no one was prepared, and their spontaneous ideas are frankly fireable-offense bad (a baguette bag shaped like a baguette for Paris?
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Definition of bad
Verb
  • Although South Africa’s devastatingly high crime rate victimizes all the country’s inhabitants, white South Africans are overall less likely than Black citizens to be crime’s victims.
    — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of victimizes
Noun
  • Do not allow the sins of the past to overwhelm, to drown the present.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
Definition of sins
Verb
  • Caleb and Kayda spend a few minutes chatting in the Say Less nook, and Zach torments himself with mental images of them making out just outside of view.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley after Jade Cargill torments Ripley.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Definition of torments
Verb
  • The retrospection tortures her.
    — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Later, in one of the movie's most satisfying scenes, Millie locks Andrew in the attic and tortures him by loudly smashing each plate.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Definition of tortures

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