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  • noun Plural form of wronger.

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Examples

  • Did you notice how well the Obama right or wrongers worked the refs in the past couple of days?

    Obama And Hillary To Appear Together At Washington Fundraiser 2009

  • Of course, it won't, and then you can get mad and commiserate with the other Obama right or wrongers and you can all blame Greg Sargent and his undeniable bias.

    Labor War: Change To Win Hammers AFSCME For "Lying" In "Deplorable" Pro-Hillary Leaflet 2009

  • The fact is that anger makes us confident-that anger is excited by our knowledge that we are not the wrongers but the wronged, and that the divine power is always supposed to be on the side of the wronged.

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • A story to show how we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one another.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

  • 'Better forbear from vainly writing about the _wrongers_, and return to the story of the wronged.'

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • That our Shakespeare, the mighty and the lovely, sometimes permits the good to suffer while their wrongers prosper, I thence infer, not indeed that he regarded them indifferently, but that he had a right Christian faith in a further stage of being where the present disorder of things in this point is to be rectified, and the moral discriminations of Providence consummated.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Now whenever any man cometh to thee complaining of his wife (and thou unknowing aught of the couple and of their circumstances), thou determinest that the male is the evil-doer and withal thou wottest not that women are often the worst of wrongers and that men are sorely wronged by them.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • They furnish them with school-books, which are filled with beautiful sophisms -- all tending to inculcate principles of endurance of wrong, and reverence for their wrongers.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • That our Shakespeare, the mighty and the lovely, sometimes permits the good to suffer while their wrongers prosper, I thence infer, not indeed that he regarded them indifferently, but that he had a right Christian faith in a further stage of being where the present disorder of things in this point is to be rectified, and the moral discriminations of Providence consummated.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

  • They furnish them with school-books, which are filled with beautiful sophisms -- all tending to inculcate principles of endurance of wrong, and reverence for their wrongers.

    The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

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