Offended vs Wronged - What's the difference?
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(offend)
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
(transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
(transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,
* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
(wrong)
Incorrect or untrue.
* 1592 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , Act II, Scene I:
Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
Immoral, not good, bad.
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
Not working; out of order.
Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
(obsolete) Twisted; wry.
(informal) In a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.
Something that is immoral or not good.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
* (rfdate) John Dowland:
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
* 1592', , ''Henry VI'', Part III, Act IV, Scene I, line 101. — I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the ' wrong .
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
* 1607', , ''Timon of Athens'', Act IV, Scene III, line 28. — Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, ' wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
* The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
* 1591', , ''Henry VI'', Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 109. — Thou dost then ' wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
* 1597', , ''Henry IV'', Part II, Act IV, Scene I, line 121. — ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are ' wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
* 1598', , ''Julius Caesar'', Act III, Scene II, line 121. — O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To '''wrong''' the dead, to '''wrong''' myself and you, Than I will ' wrong such honorable men.
As verbs the difference between offended and wronged
is that offended is (offend) while wronged is (wrong).offended
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(head)offend
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(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}
- "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
- "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
Quotations
* (English Citations of "offend")Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* offendedly * offendedness * offender * reoffendExternal links
* *wronged
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Verb
(head)wrong
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Adjective
- Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong .
- Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe
- You're wrong : he's not Superman at all.
- It is wrong to lie.
- A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
- Something is wrong with my cellphone .
- Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong .
- a wrong nose
Usage notes
* The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred. * When wrong is used attributively, before a noun, the noun is usually treated as definite, using the article the; hence, for example, one says, “I dialed the wrong number”, “he gave the wrong answer”, and “she took the wrong approach”, even though there are many possible wrong numbers, answers, and approaches, of which only one was dialed, given, or taken.Synonyms
* injurious * unjust * faulty * detrimental * unfit * unsuitable *Derived terms
* wrength * wrongly * wrongfulAntonyms
* rightQuotations
* 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium *: that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter ] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.Adverb
(en adverb)- I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
Noun
(wikipedia wrong) (en noun)- Injustice is a heinous wrong .
- Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?