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Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose. [Obs.] Wyclif (Lev. xxi. 19).

Done at an improper time; ill-timed.

One who injures another, or who does wrong.

Evil or wicked behavior or action.

One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.

Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.

Wrongheaded. [R.] Pope.

Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.

Not wrong; void or free from wrong. [Obs.] -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.

The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.

Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. [R.]

Wrongly. Ford.

Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

f abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.