wrongfully

wrongful | American Dictionary

wrongful
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈrɔŋ·fəl/
unfair or illegal:
He has suffered terribly, after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment.

wrongful | Business English

wrongful
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈrɒŋfəl/us
used to describe actions that are unfair or illegal:
wrongful arrest/conviction/imprisonmentHis lawyer is negotiating compensation for his wrongful conviction.
wrongful act/conduct/death

wrongfully

adverb
Many people believe she was wrongfully convicted.

Examples of wrongful

wrongful
Lawyers gave their lengthiest and most emotional responses in describing cases in which, despite their professional efforts, a wrongful and harmful custody ruling was issued.
If it remains wrongful, that is in virtue of considerations entirely different from considerations that make it a wrong to the victim.
As this article has demonstrated, throughout the eighteenth century, there were legal remedies against wrongful confinement, however costly and difficult they were to obtain.
Of course, it is an unfortunate fact of life that a desire for these experiential goods naturally motivates wrongful behaviour.
Harm can also occur when people are affected by the prospect, rather than the actuality, of a wrongful action.
This then fuels his analogy to wrongful life cases.
These instructions make no mention of duties of repair for wrongful losses.
Importantly, the arguments for mandator y, parent-funded insurance schemes still rely on the same fount of argument that supports wrongful life liability without pooled risk.
For example, wrongs of these sorts raise problems of definition, since not ever y intentionally demeaning act is a wrongful insult.
Surely not if you think even the initial proposal isn't wrongful.
First, there might be limitations on the threats it is legitimate to issue to deter wrongful conduct.
As has been evident throughout, the risk-liability theory requires only that the imposition of risks be wrongful.
It is not necessarily easy to identify in law the intuition that one's dignity or integrity might be damaged by wrongful behaviour.
And if per formance of the act would be morally wrongful, so too is the threat.
Either way, the crux of an excuse is that one's blameworthiness for engaging in wrongful conduct-or the wrongfulness of the conduct-is reduced or eliminated.
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