great wrong
Frequency: 6.58.2 per million words
a significant or serious injustice
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Examples (10)
- History is replete with examples of great wrongs committed in the name of power.
- The community demanded justice for the great wrong done to their ancestors centuries ago.
- Ignoring such widespread suffering would be a great wrong in itself, a moral failure.
- He felt a great wrong had been done to him by the unfair judicial verdict.
- It is our collective duty to prevent a great wrong like this from ever happening again.
- The investigative report exposed the great wrongs perpetrated during the conflict.
- Many believed that denying basic human rights was a great wrong that could not be justified.
- Can society ever truly atone for such a great wrong that impacted generations?
- The new government promised to address the great wrongs of the past regime.
- To allow this blatant injustice to stand would be a great wrong to future generations.