How to Use wrongful in a Sentence

wrongful

adjective

• He is suing his former employer for wrongful termination.
• That is against the intent of the law and is wrongful.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
• The risk of wrongful detention is too great.
  — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
• The family filed a wrongful-death suit against the city in March.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 11 June 2020
• The three-member board can then decide on whether a firing was wrongful.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
• Ronald Watts, who has been tied to dozens of wrongful convictions.
  — Dave Savini, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• But the case bore some hallmarks of wrongful convictions.
  — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• For reparations to be made, there must be a clear wrongful party and a victim.
  — Jon McGowan, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• No amount of money could undo the harm that the wrongful conviction caused.
  — Essence, 15 Dec. 2021
• The guidelines state that any officer found guilty of wrongful use of deadly force should be fired.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 June 2021
• Sailor has spent his four years out of prison talking to students about his wrongful conviction.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• Our goal with this book is to raise awareness of wrongful convictions and in some small way help to prevent more of them.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
• Miles spent 15 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• And in the case of wrongful acquittal, such as ours, the same principle should apply.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• Even if a case is determined wrongful, there is no guarantee of release.
  — Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 17 Feb. 2026
• After that, though, her mother had put the trail camera in the driveway to record any further wrongful acts.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
• Case thinks the wrongful exclusion is not just unique to Hernandez.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• And the wrongful arrest wasn’t just a minor annoyance for Williams.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
• Any accusation that the coaching staff overlooked or turned a blind eye to wrongful actions by him is just wrong.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2020
• Under the state’s wrongful conviction statute, awards are capped at $1 million.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Richard Miles knows the deep injustice of a wrongful conviction.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• All of that led to the conditions that would make the wrongful conviction almost inevitable.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2020
• Part of Knox's mission has been to prevent the wrongful convictions of others over the past decade.
  — Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 30 July 2025
• Freleng, struck by the sheer scale of the possible wrongful conviction, was intrigued by the case.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
• The passenger, who was the owner of the car, was cited for wrongful entrustment.
  — Cheryl Higley, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• He was released hours later without bond but went on to decry his detention as a wrongful arrest.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
• Hearings before Hanzman and a second judge on the wrongful-death claims have taken place over the past five weeks.
  — Curt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022
• The first wrongful conviction that outraged Dennis Muñoz was his own.
  — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
• In the past year, 56 people have filed wrongful conviction claims in Georgia.
  — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 13 July 2026
• Chicago and Illinois is one of the kind of hotbeds for places where wrongful convictions have happened.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2023