wrongful
adj.
mistaken; illegal, unlawful; unjust; not right
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wrongful
Adjective
1. having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne"
(synonym) unlawful
(similar) illegitimate
2. unlawfully violating the rights of others; "wrongful death"; "a wrongful diversion of trust income"
(similar) unlawful
3. not just or fair; "a wrongful act"; "a wrongful charge"
(similar) unjust
Wrongful
(a.)
Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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wrongful
Synonyms and related words:
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wicked, wrong
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.