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# wrongful

«wrongful» in Mova's school dictionary: **unfair, unjust or against the law (formal, law)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Wrongful means unfair, unjust or against the law (formal, law). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In law and news, a wrongful arrest or wrongful dismissal is unfair or illegal. Phrases: wrongful arrest, wrongful dismissal, wrongful death.

### examples

- He sued for wrongful arrest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x1)
- The court said it was wrongful dismissal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x2)
- The family won a wrongful death case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x3)
- The wrongful punishment upset the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x4)
- She fought her wrongful conviction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x5)
- The judge corrected the wrongful decision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/#x6)

### note

Formal, used in law. Adverb: wrongfully. Plain words: unfair, unlawful.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrongful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.