How To Use Wrongness In A Sentence
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But on everything else, the rear-guardians of conventional wisdom were wrong and they must now sit quietly, stewing in their wrongness.
The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother
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He applies one of the best known tests for assaying the rightness or wrongness of acts called the golden rule, expressing this as, ‘would I submit my own children for this immunisation if they were currently at that age?’
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Argument and logic become the sources of mathematical rightness or wrongness, rather than the teacher serving as the authority.
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Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon".
Philippa Foot obituary
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Many people have very strong opinions about the rightness or wrongness of abortion.
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Pink Floyd and Badfinger are your turns, Steve Wright your host, Ronan Keating your unbidden bringer of sinister ginger wrongness.
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DE KLERK: The aspect of the moral indefensibility, the wrongness of it, because it failed to bring justice, was the driving force for me and I think the driving force for the majority of the people in my party.
CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003
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If the transgression is a result of error rather than impulse or intent, the wrongness is not "in" us.
The Stain of Sin
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A fisherman can explain the wrongness of the weather.
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As with military strategy, rightness or wrongness is supplanted by possibility.
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The immorality lies in the inherent wrongness of people deliberately killing other people.
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All of the features by which we're identifying this type of fantasy and by which many examples of this fiction are judged (by writers like Moorcock in his WIZARDRY AND WILD ROMANCE, for example) to be infantilist and reactionary -- heritage, noble blood, the pre-industrial pastoral, and heroic spectacularism -- fit neatly, I think, with an idea that the strange is used initially to construct a sense of the idyllic, a sense of "rightness" rather than "wrongness".
Narrative Grammars
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In such a mentality, “wrongness” is understood as transgression, which is understood as deviance from the “natural order”, which is understood in terms of the received wisdom of norms-as-law.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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One cannot clearly see the wrongness of cultural/moral relativism (and collectivism and subjectivism) until one has fully grasped the concept of rational (and therefore objective) morality, i.e., morality utterly grounded in the facts of reality (not the fantasies of supernature) and discovered through rational thinking that recognises man's life as man's standard of value.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The saboteurs, uncrushed, will try to turn my rightness into wrongness.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have always like comparing this to the Buddhist concept of "dukkha" or unsatisfactoriness, disquieted, uneasy .... the inherent wrongness of conscious life.
Karen Kisslinger: Is Human Life a Mental Illness?
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You seem to be inferring wrongness from my claim that certain grammatical constructions are simply NOT LOGICAL.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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Hardy's rhetoric allows the critic to overlook the simple wrongness of Tess's act, and mask it in a neutral phraseology more appropriate to suicide or death by natural causes than homicide.
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The scandals and crimes form a tsunami of noise, inrushing upon a benumbed ear, until all that can be perceived is a background static of wrongness, like the vestigial radiation of the Big Bang that permeates the universe.
Chip Collis: We Want Change... But From What?
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His actions were quickly followed and none of the officers noticed any longer the obtrusive wrongness of his presence.
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The writer apprehends that the abstract right of insurrection on the one hand, and of self-conservation on the other, quite overbears, in so vast and momentous a debate, the narrow, technical, legal question: that which it does not overbear is the rightness or wrongness of the immediate motive, conduct, and aim of any particular insurrection and repression, considered individually.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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If you want to convince me of the wrongness of an argument you must do more than "This is possibly the barmiest idea the Tories have had to date".
Mum and Dad - The State
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And, to believe that ‘fighting back’ consists of browbeating our elected politicians into standing up and denouncing Republican badness and wrongness is infantile.
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Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie)
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Multi-dimensional "Wrongness of Space" anomaly attacks our system, alien menaces and mad scientists pop out of every wrinkle of time and space, flying around (some will say chaotically) in droves, driving the serial to its bang-up finish - incomparable Edmond Hamilton destroying the planets Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus with an atomic disintegrator ray in his "Armageddon in Space".
Ultra-Rare Serials from "Fantasy Magazine"
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Thus, those having any sense of the wrongness of the activity must be seduced.
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It would not be quite right, I think, to say that the imagery of decay and disease attached to the figure of the oracle represents this corruption, that the sickness of the oracle is crudely symbolic of the wrongness of the society as a whole.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie)
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While I have not changed my position on the unnaturalness and just plain wrongness of getting up early, I can see that there are some advantages in terms of one's productivity and recreation and so on.
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It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry.
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The aspect of the moral indefensibility, the wrongness of it, because it failed to bring justice, was the driving force for me and I think the driving force for the majority of the people in my party.