wrongness
名词 n.
英 /ˈɹɒŋ.nəs/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
— Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
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Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
— But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind men practising immorality so long as they own that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.
词形变化
词源
From Middle English wrongnesse, equivalent to wrong + -ness.
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