seem wrong

Frequency: 8.015.0 per million words

to appear to be incorrect or inappropriate

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Examples (10)

  • It might seem wrong to you, but it's completely legal.
  • Does anything about this plan seem wrong to you?
  • The decision to cut funding seemed wrong to many people.
  • He felt that leaving without saying goodbye would seem wrong.
  • Even though it felt like the right thing to do, it still seemed wrong somehow.
  • For some, a purely profit-driven approach can seem morally wrong.
  • I know it might seem wrong, but we have no other option.
  • His silence in the face of injustice made his actions seem undeniably wrong.
  • It would seem very wrong if they were to proceed without consulting us.
  • At first glance, the solution might seem wrong, but it's actually quite clever.