A wrong or being wrong is a concept in law, ethics, epistemology, and science. In a colloquial sense, wrongness usually refers to a state of incorrectness, inaccuracy, error, or miscalculation in any number of contexts. More specifically, being "wrong" refers to a situation wherein an individual has made an error or misjudgment.
Famous quotes containing the word wrong:
“But the one thing you shd. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)