Usually means: Incorrect or unjust by law.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word wrongful:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrongful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wrongful: Merriam-Webster
  3. wrongful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wrongful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wrongful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wrongful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wrongful, wrongful: Wordnik
  8. wrongful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wrongful: Wiktionary
  10. wrongful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wrongful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wrongful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wrongful: Dictionary.com
  14. wrongful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wrongful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wrongful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wrongful: Rhymezone
  18. Wrongful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wrongful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. wrongful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. wrongful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. wrongful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrongful: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. wrongful: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrongful: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See wrongfully as well.)

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adjective:  wrong or unjust
adjective:  unlawful or illegal

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