Wrong vs Pretend - What's the difference?
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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.
To claim, allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , XVIII.23:
*:"After what past at Upton, so soon to engage in a new amour with another woman, while I fancied, and you pretended , your heart was bleeding for me!"
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, chapter=5 * 2009 , "Vanity publishing", The Economist , 13 Apr 2009:
To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
* Milton
* 2007 , The Guardian , 29 Oct 2007:
To lay claim (to) (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to )
* Dryden
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
To make oneself appear (to) do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park :
*:"The truth is, Ma'am," said Mrs. Grant, pretending to whisper across the table to Mrs. Norris, "that Dr. Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is [...]."
* 2003 , Duncan Campbell, The Guardian , 23 Jan 2003:
(obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
* Milton
(obsolete) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.11:
*:Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended […].
As verbs the difference between wrong and pretend
is that wrong is to treat unjustly; to injure or harm while pretend is .As an adjective wrong
is incorrect or untrue.As an adverb wrong
is (informal) in a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.As a noun wrong
is something that is immoral or not good.wrong
English
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?
Synonyms
* wrengthVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* awrong * bark up the wrong tree * civil wrong * go down the wrong way * go wrong * in the wrong * * not that there's anything wrong with that * put a foot wrong * rub somebody the wrong way * self-wrong * start off on the wrong foot * two wrongs don't make a right * two wrongs make a right * wrong side of bed * wrong 'un * wrongdoing * wronger * wrong-foot * wrongful * wrongfully * wronghead * wrong-headed * wrongless * wrongly * wrongness * wrong number * wrongous * wrong side of the tracks * wrong side out * wrong-timed * wrong way * wrong-way concurrencySee also
* wrong'd * wrungStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----pretend
English
Verb
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- I have nothing but contempt for people who hire ghost-writers. But at least most faux authors have the decency to pretend that they are sweating blood over "their" book.
- This let him know, / Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend / Surprisal.
- Gap and other clothes manufacturers should stop using small subcontractors because they are difficult to control. Instead, they should open up their own fully-owned production facilities so that they cannot pretend ignorance when abuses are committed.
- Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend .
- People observed the diversity of schools and the acerbity of their disputes, and decided that all alike were pretending to knowledge which was in fact unattainable.
- Luster claimed that the women had consented to sex and were only pretending to be asleep.
- Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.
- Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.