wrongful

How To Use wrongful In A Sentence

• He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
• Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
• They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments.
• In this wrongful dismissal action, it appears that the defendant does not seriously dispute the fact that the plaintiff's co-employee seriously misconducted himself with respect to the plaintiff.
• It has only received a 250,000 interim payment for wrongful imprisonment. Times, Sunday Times
• Was recently awarded ￡30,000 damages against Thames Valley Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
• The applicants have claimed that their removal and detention constituted wrongful imprisonment and deprivation of liberty.
• For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
• Every wrongful imprisonment could lead to a civil lawsuit against the city.
• It has been sought to obtain badges or other distinctions for baronets and also to purge the order of wrongful assumptions, an evil to which the baronetage of Nova Scotia is peculiarly exposed, owing to the dignity being descendible to collateral heirs male of the grantee as well as to those of his body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"