The risk of discovery would have been great, the consequences terrible, and few people have been more incapable than Mary of knowingly doing a wrong thing.
At least we may agree with Froude that "few men or women have lived less capable of doing knowingly a wrong thing.
I hope I am afraid of nothing, Trim,' said my uncle Toby, 'except doing a wrong thing.
Like my uncle Toby, they have but one fear--the fear of doing a wrong thing.
I hope I am afraid of nothing, Trim," said my uncle Toby, "except doing a wrong thing.
It's his doing to get the girl's money, and it's a wrong thing.
Now I ask you to think, dear friends, of this, that that obstinate condition of dogged determination to do a wrong thing, knowing it to be a wrong thing, is a condition to which all evil steadily tends.
I take the second on the lips of Judas, as an example of the very opposite of that self-distrust, the fixed determination to do a wrong thing, however clearly we know it to be wrong.
But everybody knows that these feelings are something quite different from the feeling which condemns murder as a wrong thing, and approves parental care as a right thing.
The worship of a deity who is represented as unfair or unfriendly to any portion of the community is a wrong thing, however great may be the threats and promises by which it is commended.
But if slavery was a wrong thing, a revolution undertaken with the purpose of making it perpetual was also a wrong thing.
Lincoln, therefore, went direct to the logical heart of the contention, when he said that the real dispute was whether slavery was a right thing or a wrong thing.
If the weak brother does a right thing while his conscience tells him it is a wrong thing, to him it is a wrong thing.
A man may possibly do a wrong thing when he obeys conscience; he is certainly wrong when he acts contrary to conscience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrong thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
