Derailed
Wrong and derailed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead an adjective "Derailed".
Nearby Words: derailment, derailing
Both words in one sentence
- Maybe they've paired the wrong couple together, or they've derailed the character or they don't even understand who the true hero of the story should be.
Source: Fix Fic - Sluggy Freelance's 4U city showed an attempt at Utopia derailed by the technology behind it Gone Horribly Wrong.
Source: Perfection Is Impossible -
Egon: "Lets see what happens when we take away the puppy." Just Train Wrong: Egon identifies the ghost train that "runs over" Winston in the subway tunnel as one that derailed in 1920, despite it looking much more like a train from fifty years before that.
Source: Film / Ghostbusters (1984)
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