in se [Lat.]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.
injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness &c adj.; iniquity, foul play.
partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party
spirit, partisanship; bigotry.
undueness &c 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness &c 964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul &c v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice &c
945.
a custom more honored in the breach than the observance [Hamlet].
V. be wrong &c adj.; cry to heaven for vengeance.
do wrong &c n.; be inequitable &c adj.; favor, lean towards;
encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch
and take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul.
Adj. wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable,
unequitable†; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious [Law].
objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,
unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified &c 925; illegal &c 964;
iniquitous; immoral &c 945.
in the wrong, in the wrong box.
Adv. wrongly &c adj..
Phr. it will not do.