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 Translation for 'wrong-way' from English to Swedish
NOUN   a wrong way | wrong ways
traf.
spökförare {u}
wrong-way driver
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Translation for 'wrong-way' from English to Swedish

wrong-way driver
spökförare {u}traf.
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Usage Examples English
  • In December 1994, Aaliyah told the "Chicago Sun-Times" that whenever she was asked about being married to Kelly, she urged them not to believe "all that mess" and that she and Kelly were "close" and "people took it the wrong way".
  • But academic freedom means nothing if it doesn't protect the right of professors to present scholarly ideas that are relevant to their curricula, even if they are controversial and rub people the wrong way".
  • The base of the feathers on the upper neck are white and only seen if the bird is inspected or a strong gust blows them the wrong way.
  • A favorite bit of "business", repeated in many of his films, involved his hat going astray—either caught on the end of his cane, or simply facing the wrong way—as he attempts to put it onto his head.
  • Two more recent travel books — "The Wrong Way Home" (1999) by Peter Moore and "Magic Bus" (2008) by Rory Maclean — also retrace the original hippie trail.

  • This cardinal direction may not necessarily match the road's orientation at every given location (see Wrong-way concurrency).
  • Cruz, who blamed Pueblos for showing his priests the "wrong way".
  • This asymmetrical arrangement ensures that the cord cannot be plugged in the wrong way around.
  • If you could somehow empty out the valence band and just put one electron near the valence band maximum (an unstable situation), this electron would move the "wrong way" in response to forces.
  • While Mini-DIN connectors cannot be plugged in the "wrong way", it is possible to have trouble finding the right way without looking inside the circular connector's shroud.

  • history, a bus accident in which a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hit the group's vehicle, killing 27 people.
  • The name was described by the resident Yako family in 1930 as meaning "Wrong Way Home", because Nushagak River residents returning to their homes upriver would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River with the tide, inadvertently arriving at Aleknagik Lake.
  • This is a wrong-way concurrency, where two roads run concurrent with each other but are designated in opposite directions.
  • In 1992 they sponsored the British Steel Challenge, the first of a series of 'wrong way' races for amateur crews.
  • Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung considered indeed that "there must be some people who behave in the wrong way; they act as scapegoats and objects of interest for the normal ones".

  • Clarkson discovered that the crush barriers were unable to contain the weight of the crowd and had the reinforcement in the concrete exposed; the wall's piers had been built the wrong way around and that there was a small building at the top of the terrace that contained long plastic tubing underneath.
  • This pin's socket on the female connector is often obstructed, requiring pin 20 to be omitted from the male cable or drive connector; it is thus impossible to plug it in the wrong way round.
  • Norman Holland's widely influential proposal in 1959 of a "right way/wrong way" reading took Wycherley's morality with innovative seriousness and interpreted the play as presenting two bad kinds of masculinity [...] Horner's libertinism and Pinchwife's possessiveness [...] and recommending the golden mean of Harcourt, the true lover, the representative of mutual trust in marriage.
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