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wrongful
adjective
1 wrongful
Having no legally established claim:
— The wrongful heir to the throne.
synonym: unlawful.
Roget 923:
wrong,
wrongful;
bad,
too bad;
unjust,
unfair;
inequitable,
unequitable†;
unequal,
partial,
one-sided;
injurious,
tortious [Law].
objectionable;
unreasonable,
unallowable,
unwarrantable,
unjustifiable;
improper,
unfit;
unjustified
etc.
925;
illegal
etc.
964;
iniquitous;
immoral
etc.
945.
in the wrong,
in the wrong box.
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2 wrongful
Unlawfully violating the rights of others.
3 wrongful
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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