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wrong . (1515 uses)
There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.
wrong , (1116 uses)
`` Anything wrong, cap'n??
wrong with (495 uses)
`` What's wrong with him ''??
wrong and (370 uses)
As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.
wrong to (316 uses)
She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.
wrong in (273 uses)
Women themselves have come to look upon matters in the same light as the outside world, and scarcely find any wrong in submitting to the importunities of a stronger will, even when their affections are withheld.
wrong side (230 uses)
When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.
wrong way (218 uses)
Your fur has been rubbed the wrong way and you show it.
wrong " (212 uses)
Another common type of crystallographic defect is an impurity, meaning that the " wrong " type of atom is present in a crystal.
wrong for (120 uses)
Where some Jews regard them as examples of heroic martyrdom, but others saying that while Jews should always be willing to face martyrdom if necessary, it was wrong for them to take their own lives.
wrong time (120 uses)
# I undertake to abstain from eating at the wrong time ( the right time is after sunrise, before noon ).
wrong direction (118 uses)
The man began to creep in the wrong direction, deceived by a slight rise in the ground!!
wrong place (108 uses)
If baby teeth are retained too long, the incoming second teeth may be prevented from emerging at the normal time or may have to erupt in the wrong place.
wrong answer (97 uses)
On any given run of the algorithm, it has a probability of at most 1 / 3 that it will give the wrong answer.
wrong when (93 uses)
Something is wrong when these things happen.
wrong or (86 uses)
Diogenes says that Heraclitus used to play knucklebones with the youths in the temple of Artemis and when asked to start making laws he refused saying that the constitution ( politeia ) was ponĂªra, which can mean either that it was fundamentally wrong or that he considered it toilsome.
wrong ". (85 uses)
Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".
wrong ; (83 uses)
Still, it would be surprising if what one reads did not contribute to one's ideas of right and wrong ; ;
wrong about (81 uses)
But you're wrong about the rest of it.
wrong by (65 uses)
During this dark chapter in State Department history, men who had offered foreign-policy ideas later proven wrong by events filled the tumbrels sent up to Capitol Hill.
wrong hands (64 uses)
Behn furthermore explored a realm of intrigue with letters that fall into the wrong hands, faked letters, letters withheld by protagonists, and even more complex interaction.
wrong as (62 uses)
He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.
wrong ( (59 uses)
This is Heraclitus ' logos, but now it is confused with the " common nomos ", which Zeus uses to " make the wrong ( perissa, left or odd ) right ( artia, right or even )" and " order ( kosmein ) the disordered ( akosma ).
wrong on (54 uses)
His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.
wrong ' (54 uses)
I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

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