'Intrinsic' means " belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing". Not all evils are intrinsic evils, for example, stealing is normally wrong, but it is not intrinsically wrong. If you are starving and there are literally no other options, it would not be wrong to steal food to prevent starvation.
So, if something is wrong, but not intrinsically, that means there are situations, however narrowly defined, where it might be morally permissible, but if it is intrinsically wrong, there are absolutely no circumstances where it might be morally permissible.
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