When the quality of rightness or wrongness is exhibited in specially intense degree in particular conduct, the feelings may take the form of ethical admiration or of abhorrence.
They express something more than the simple approval or disapproval already noted in connection with the discernment of the rightness or wrongness of an action.
Jerry did not quite understand, but he sensed the difference and resented, without expressing in action, the wrongness and unfairness of it.
What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
Still there was one element mingling with his wrongness whose very triviality increased the difficulty of long delaying repentance: he had been not a little proud at finding himself the friend of a marquis.
And oh, you who frightened me so about my wrongness and told me how hard it was to be right--do you know how easy it is for me to say those words?
All is wrong till all is right; and he must be able to bear the all-wrongness till his work is done, or he cannot paint at all.
You cannot but feel at once, not only the wrongness of Salvator's, but its dulness.
Llewellyn Davis), has objected to this passage, saying, "Surely the rightness or wrongness of saving a man from drowning does depend very much upon the motive with which it is done.
If we discuss the rightness or wrongness of the drink habit we try to show its social consequences.
So, too, if we discuss the rightness or wrongness of such an institution as polygamy we find ourselves forced to do so mainly in social terms.
Footnote 294: Wrongness of knowledge (apramatva) can only reside in knowledge as a characteristic or quality thereof; it cannot reside in a jar.
He looks worried, and is still dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher.
This admission would imply that the universal wrongness of suicide is at any rate not self-evident.
The wrongness was right--at any rate after Mary had hit on it for William.
There is no sense of rightness, or wrongness connected with it, no sense of utility, propriety, or expediency.
The wrongness of murder, for example, belongs in a less degree to any form of bodily injury that one man may inflict on another; and it is even extended so as to include injuries to his reputation or his feelings.
We may see at once that this can only be indirect; for the rightness or wrongness of belief in a doctrine depends only upon the nature of the evidence for it, and not upon what the doctrine is.
But still our feeling about the rightness or wrongness of an action does operate as a motive when we think of the action as being done by us; and when so operating it is called conscience.
Neither side was right in the struggle, although he preferred the West's brand of wrongness to the bloodier wrongness of the Reds.
A few instances may be relevantly given in which rightness has been attended by disadvantages, when wrongness appeared to have none--yet wrongness was found to bring great unpleasantness in the end.
Versification: A conviction as to the rightness or wrongness of vers libre is no guarantee of a poet.
You may still think me wrong; but anyhow my wrongness will be towards somebody else, not towards you.
The real wrongnessof what you do, depends upon the level of rightness you start from, I mean.
Now if one has that sense and suffers consciously under the wrongness of the conditions in question--why, then one becomes, necessarily, just what I am.
I think that we are constrained to it by the essential wrongness of the conditions of life.
Even so, I may maintain that, in specific situations, the rightness or wrongness of given courses of action may be perceived immediately.
The man who takes the time to reflect upon his feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action can often discover some, perhaps rather vague, reason for his feeling proper.
For two reasons: first, because it illustrates the fundamental wrongness of Unionism; secondly, because it is not dead.
This essential wrongness of Unionism, so amply illustrated in every year of its working, continues.
According to this view rightness or wrongness cannot be predicated of the passions themselves, but should rather be applied to the use of them, and to the way they are proportioned to each other and to circumstances.
Though there is a superficial judgment of this kind, yet when the matter comes to be looked into, the more general consent seems to be that the rightness or wrongness is in the motive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrongness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
