wrong
/ˈɹɔŋ/ adjective A1- Incorrect or untrue. · Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue. · You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
- Immoral, not good, bad. · It is wrong to lie.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable. · A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
- Not working; out of order. · Something is wrong with my cellphone.· Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward. · the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
- Twisted; wry. · a wrong nose
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“As to taking command of the vessel,” replied Morrel, “that was his duty as captain’s mate; as to losing a day and a half off the Island of Elba, he was wrong, unless the vessel needed repairs.”
“No, you are all wrong,” said the little man meekly.
“You people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
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