wrong side

The side of a fabric, often with a less visible color or pattern, that is not intended to be seen on a finished project.

Noun

  1. The side of a fabric, often with a less visible color or pattern, that is not intended to be seen on a finished project.
    • Trace the pattern on the wrong side so that any mistakes won't show when you're done.

    Antonyms: right side

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wrong, side.
    • Don't drive on the wrong side of the road.
    • But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates. - 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive...

Forms

wrong sides

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get on someone's wrong side on the wrong side of history wrong side of the tracks