wrong

detract, derogate, decry, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap [U.S.]; belittle; sneer at (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back., fling dirt (disrespect); anathematize; dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light.

discriminate, distinguish, severalize; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; split hairs., estimate (measure); know which is which, know what is what, know a hawk from a handsaw [Hamlet]., take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow due weight to; weigh carefully.

be in trouble (adversity).

misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate., desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste [more]; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander [more]., cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw.

be vicious; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgfress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue [more]; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats., render vicious; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt (degrade).

be impious, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear (malediction); commit sacrilege., snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.