Wrongful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wrongful \Wrong"ful\, a.
     Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful
     taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- {Wrong"ful*ly}, adv.
     -- {Wrong"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wrongful
       adj 1: having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to
              the throne" [syn: {unlawful}]
       2: unlawfully violating the rights of others; "wrongful death";
          "a wrongful diversion of trust income"
       3: not just or fair; "a wrongful act"; "a wrongful charge"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrongful":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law,
     anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, black-market, bootleg,
     chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent,
     deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, hardly the thing,
     ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible,
     improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable,
     infamous, iniquitous, irregular, justiciable, lawless,
     nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not done, not the thing,
     off-base, off-color, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, punishable,
     sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible,
     triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional,
     under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal,
     unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unmeet,
     unmerited, unofficial, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly,
     unstatutory, unsuitable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wicked,
     wrong