The owner placed himself under their protection, and endeavored to insure his rights against wrongful encroachment by calling upon the demons to range themselves on his side.
Then had thy care for thine been meet, but now indeed o'erlate With wrongful plaint thou risest up, and bickerest emptily.
It is none of thy concern whether He be turned unto them in kindness or chastise them: for verily they are wrongful doers.
Hence the principle arose that the King's command is no excuse for a wrongful act, and this is a firmly established maxim of the Common Law in both civil and criminal proceedings.
This right of action was by civil suit for such damages as inured to the party by reason of a wrongful act of a common carrier.
The whole doctrine of repentance really hinges on this question of abreacting painful or wrongful experience instead of repressing it.
Generations of educationists have disputed their relative importance: but neither party can deny that the most fortunate nature, given wrongful or insufficient nurture, will hardly emerge unharmed.
Whose wrongful blight so oft has stained The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gained.
The greater Roman capitalists had so long held possession, in utter defiance of the law, of the great bulk of the public lands of the state that their wrongful possessions had, in their eyes, ripened into a rightfully vested interest.
Wrongful and abuseful in its creation, this peripatetic committee of the Senate was equally so in its composition and object.
It was a hollow and a false pretext of which you thus made a wrongful use.
Ay,' said the man, 'he would cease his wrongful dealing if she would wed him, but she cannot abide the evil face of him.
But now, my lord, quickly ye must betake yourself and all your army from this fruitless and wrongful War against Sir Lancelot, and hasten to beat down the poisonous viper whom ye have nourished in your bosom.
It has had enough of the wrongful use of material power.
If attention is called to, or attack made on, certain wrongful business practices, there are those who are eager to call it "an attack on all business.
Such children can not be expected to know of themselves, or to learn without instruction, what the wrongful ways are, and they never do learn until they have made many failures.
Trewly, ye yeve to dignites wrongful names in your cleping.
A wrongful step on the defendant's land, a wrongful touch to his person or chattels could be held to constitute sufficient force and an adequate breach of the king's peace to sustain a trespass action.
He had thought to please her Highness by this attention, but the dull, awkward woman had forbidden the completion of the plan: it was a wrongful waste of money, she averred, and a French vanity!
Forstner replied to this official document that he had no intention of putting his head between the wolf's teeth, and that he intended to appeal in Vienna against the wrongfuldetention of his monies and properties in Wirtemberg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrongful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
