[usuallybeforenoun] (especially law) not fair, morally right or legal:
She decided to sue her employer for wrongful dismissal.
wrongfully adverb:
to be wrongfully convicted / dismissed -< WRONG
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for wrongful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wrongful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wrongful is tagged as adjective.
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