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Wrongness

noun

Inappropriate conduct. Synonym: inappropriateness.

Contrary to conscience or morality.

The quality of not conforming to fact or truth. Synonym: incorrectness.

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"Wrongness" Quotes from Famous Books

... making a furrow a little out of the line, and he ploughs on in it to try and give some consistency and meaning to it. He wants almost to persuade himself that it was not wrong, and entirely to hide the wrongness from others. This is a tribute to the majesty of truth; also to the world's opinion about truth. It proceeds, too, upon the notion that all falsehoods are equal, which is not the case; or on some fond craving for a show ...

— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps

... way about it, Bruce. You know that I am not beautiful, there is no glamour in your love for me. You know that I am not wonderful, or a fairy Princess—. And you are right and he is wrong. But it is his wrongness which makes me love him. Because every woman wants to be beautiful to her lover, and to feel that she is ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

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