Wrongful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Wrong; unjust: wrongful criticism.
  • adj. Unlawful: wrongful death.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. wrong or unjust
  • adj. unlawful or illegal
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of or characterized by wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair: as, a wrongful taking of property.
  • Synonyms See wrong, a.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having no legally established claim
  • adj. unlawfully violating the rights of others
  • adj. not just or fair
  • Equivalent
    illegitimate    unlawful    unjust   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    injurious    unjust    unfair    immoral    sinful   
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