A wrong or being wrong is a concept in law, ethics, epistemology, and science. In a colloquial sense, wrongness usually refers to a state of incorrectness, inaccuracy, error, or miscalculation in any number of contexts. More specifically, being "wrong" refers to a situation wherein an individual has made an error or misjudgment.
Famous quotes containing the word wrong:
“But the one thing you shd. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is proper and what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.”
—Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980)