wrongness

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Recent Examples of wrongness But for less intimate relationships, the perception of wrongness was the key predictor of negative feelings and avoidance. — Andras Molnar, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 Hidden, almost, in the center of the exhibition are a few of Mendieta’s early paintings from the late 1960s and early 1970s, which have a jarring feeling of wrongness about them. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026 Perfection alienates; wrongness invites. — Andrey Mir, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 In the 1940s and 50s, Pym’s spinsters had occupied a status of respectable wrongness. — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrongness
Noun
  • Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ongoing satirical series at first appalled many viewers with its resolute political incorrectness and penchant for four-letter words from the mouths of babes, and that was nowhere more evident than in Cartman himself.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That, however, is nothing now compared to the far larger incorrectness of the rulers of a significant number of the most powerful nations on earth.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Not just shame but gross unfitness for serving in a role at a state university.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Musk attempted to color Altman as a uniquely unsuitable supervisor of this technology, but this invariably invited further scrutiny into his own abject unfitness for the role.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • This is expressed just as her 14-year-old appears to see that her earlier prediction about Carmella’s likelihood of inappropriateness had come true.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The undesirability of the undead state is inherent in the term itself.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
  • There are hyper-local gags about the Williamsburg bar Union Pool and the undesirability of living in the Financial District, and a creature known as Rat Pizza — like Pizza Rat in reverse.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Arendt, evidently depressed and convinced of life’s meaninglessness, found his teaching electrifying.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Like emo in the early to mid ’00s, the genre marker has been muddied to the point of near meaninglessness.
    — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Wrongness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongness. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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