Usually means: Incorrect or unethical according to standards.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word wrong:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrong: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wrong: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wrong: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wrong: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wrong: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wrong, wrong: Wordnik
  7. wrong: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wrong: Wiktionary
  9. wrong: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wrong: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wrong: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wrong: Dictionary.com
  13. wrong (adj.), wrong (n.), wrong (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wrong: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wrong (Depeche Mode song), Wrong (Everything but the Girl song), Wrong (Waylon Jennings song), Wrong (Zayn song), Wrong (album), Wrong (film), Wrong (soundtrack), Wrong: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wrong: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wrong: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wrong: Rhymezone
  19. wrong: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wrong: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Wrong: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Wrong: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. wrong: Free Dictionary
  24. wrong: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wrong: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrong: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Wrong: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. wrong: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrong: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrong: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WRONG: Acronym Finder
  2. wrong: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrong, wrong, wrong: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. WRONG, wrong (noun): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Incorrect or untrue.
adjective:  Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
adjective:  Immoral, not good, bad.
adjective:  Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
adjective:  Not working; out of order.
adjective:  Designed to be worn or placed inward
adjective:  Twisted; wry.
adverb:  (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
noun:  Something that is immoral or not good.
noun:  An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
noun:  The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
noun:  The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
verb:  To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
verb:  To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
verb:  To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

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