wrongfulness

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Noun
  • The Justice Manual violations described above represent only one dimension of the illegality of this Fund.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Federal illegality further cripples operations with banking and tax burdens.
    Peter Su, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
    Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ned wishes to reveal Joffrey’s illegitimacy, but is instead betrayed by Littlefinger (Aidan Gillen), imprisoned by Cersei, and beheaded in a public execution on Joffrey's orders.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
  • By the time Eileen was born, the matter of illegitimacy was a permanent social anxiety.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
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“Wrongfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongfulness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.

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