wronging
present participle ofwrong
wrong
verb[T]
formaluk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/totreatsomeone in anunfairorunacceptableway:
Shefeltdeeplywronged by hisaccusations.
Treating people or animals badly
- abuser
- anti-harassment
- at the hands ofsomeoneidiom
- batten
- batten onsomeone
- ill-treat
- ill-treatment
- ill-used
- impose
- inflict
- pick onsomeone
- prey
- prey onsomething
- putsomeonethroughsomething
- put upon
- tyrannical
- tyrannize
- tyranny
- uncared for
- use
Examplesofwronging
wronging
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
If we violate one of our positional obligations, say by breaking a promise, we harm them in virtue ofwrongingthem by breaking our word.
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Is she harming orwrongingher child by exercising this new power?
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It is to prevent theirwrongingthe workers that the enforceable duty of the minimum wage falls on them.
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Cloning is quite possible without either harming orwrongingthe child who would be created.
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And, finally, we will have no need to give up useful distinctions between imposing pain on and harming a given person, and between harming andwronginga given person.
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Indeed, one of them may feel sorry for the other partner and may feel that he or she is "wronging" that person.
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They are not righting themselves; they arewrongingthemselves.
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There, any employer who iswronginghis workpeople has to reckon immediately not only with the workers' organisations but with the employers' associations.
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Of significance is also that the verse is stated in plural and indicates that there are two separate prohibitions: onaa (wronging) and lachatz (oppression).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whereby you must famish bywrongingus your friends.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then the conviction comes to him that he has beenwrongingthe authoress, and that he alone is beginning to see through her artifice.
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- asian-tiger
- Asia-Pacific
- asia-pacific
- Asiatic
- aside
- aside from
- aside-from
- as if!
- as-if
- as if/as though
- as-if-as-though
- as-if-care
- as-if-going-out-of-style
- as if I care
- as if it is going out of style
- as-if-it-is-going-out-of-style
- as-if-owned-the-place
- as if/though
- as-if-though
- as (if) to the manner born
- as-if-to-the-manner-born
- as-if-when-etc-the-spirit-moves
- as, if, when, etc. the spirit moves sb
- as-if-when-etc-the-spirit-moves-sb
- as, if, when, etc. the spirit moves someone