Word Meanings - WRONGFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to WRONGFUL)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• INJURIOUS
  1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• DEALBATE
  To whiten. Cockeram.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• INJURIOUSNESS
  The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• DEALTH
  Share dealt.
• UNJUSTICE
  Want of justice; injustice. Hales.
• DEALING
  The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person. Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing,
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• PROPERTY
  1. To invest which properties, or qualities. Shak. 2. To make a property of; to appropriate. They have here propertied me. Shak.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• UNFAIR
  To deprive of fairness or beauty. Shak.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.