Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wrongs
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɔŋz]
Usage examples
  • The boy grew up in this dismal place and brooded on his mother's wrongs.
  • He knew he had suffered grievous wrongs, but he did not know how to right them.
  • I wasn't butler fifteen year without learning the rights and the wrongs about dinner."
  • For example, if someone oppresses, injures and wrongs another, and the wronged man retaliates, this is vengeance and is censurable.
  • The rich fool who tosses a dollar to a waiter for some trifling service, debases the waiter, injures himself, and wrongs the public.
  • And had we not many a trophy, but, according to old Mabel's version of history, far more honourably gained, to mark our revenge of these wrongs?
  • He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it."
  • If Myles fancied that one single victory over his enemy would cure the evil against which he fought, he was grievously mistaken; wrongs are not righted so easily as that.
  • There was a time, indeed, when to assert the innocence of Lady Belmont, and to blazon to the world the wrongs, not guilt, by which she suffered, I proposed, nay attempted, a similar plan: but then all assistance and encouragement was denied.
  • Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.