Sentence examples for greater wrong from inspiring English sources

The caretakers said that committing the same wrong again was an even greater wrong.

But what if saying sorry opens the way to an even greater wrong?

Dickens told a friend afterward that "it is better to suffer a great wrong than to have recourse to the much greater wrong of the law".

The passionate indignation with which he lied was (in my opinion) rooted in a conviction that it would be a greater wrong for his nomination to be rejected on account of some boorish but judicially irrelevant private behavior than for him to defend himself by indulging in a bit of, to use a stock phrase from a later scandal, lying about sex.

I think that that's in fact the greater wrong.

A wrong to Y and a wrong to Z cannot be added to make some greater wrong because there is no person who suffers this greater wrong (cf. Taurek 1977).

Some of them became "wrongs," while others became "greater wrongs".

On days we committed wrongs, we were beaten less, on days we committed "greater wrongs," we were beaten a lot, and on days we admitted to nothing, we were beaten repeatedly all day long.

"Put this great wrong right.

A great wrong was righted.

America, Aldous Huxley sniffed, is "The Great Wrong Place".