in the wrong

idiom

: in the position or situation of being wrong

We had an argument and each of us thinks that the other was in the wrong.

Examples of in the wrong in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The world's biggest Travel & Tourism economy is heading in the wrong direction, not because of a lack of demand, but because of a failure to act. —Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025

But JPMorgan has countered that the 84-year-old widow has brought her case in the wrong forum. —Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025

While some trans people do experience it as the feeling of being in the wrong body, that is not how dysphoria feels for all trans people. —Quispe López, Them., 12 May 2025

The driver took them several hours in the wrong direction, to a small border town called Manuel Benavides that had an unsettling atmosphere: prominent security cameras surveilled the empty streets. —Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 10 May 2025

Rhymes for in the wrong

• evensong
• livelong
• overlong
• vietcong
• agung
• along
• belong
• birdsong
• furlong
• headlong
• headstrong
• lifelong