Wrongful: alternatives and connections

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; somethi…

An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discour…

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the l…

a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair practices"

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.

To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of…

That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids;…

False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.

A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is u…

A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves…

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to counten…

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, fou…