Sentence examples for it is wrongful from inspiring English sources

The concept does not specify whether it is wrongful to impose disadvantages on persons on account of their sexual orientation.

This violates a plausible principle that holds that it is wrongful to intend to do what it would be wrongful to do (the "wrongful intentions principle").

Common sense and basic morality would tell you that spinning amounted to usurpation of a corporate opportunity and, based upon general principles and ordinary morality, it is wrongful.

"They have to know it's wrongful," said Steven G. Kobre, a former district attorney and federal prosecutor who is a partner at Kobre & Kim in New York.

And if one wanted to condemn as wrong a certain act or practice, then one could call it 'discrimination' (in the moralized sense) and leave it at that, or one could call it 'discrimination' (in the non-moralized sense) and then add that it was wrongful.

It's wrongful discrimination.

Differences in understanding what is wrongful about it may account for these different positions.

Spinning is wrongful because it is the company, eBay in this case, not its CEO, that owns the right to award future investment banking business to Goldman Sachs and the like.

It is not simply that such discrimination is wrongful as a conceptual matter.

And sometimes it may be wrongful to threaten what it would be right to carry out (blackmail and extortion are sometimes thought to include such cases).

There seem to be three categories in which answers to this question might fall: coercion is intrinsically wrongful; it is prima facie or pro tanto wrongful, though it may be justified by further facts; and it is intrinsically morally neutral, though some uses of it may be wrongful because of specific facts about them.