The only time a wish was not granted exactly as the wisher imagined it was during the Frieza Saga, when Piccolo was wished to Planet Namek, but not to the Z-Fighter's specific location. Sorbet persisted, however, and the wish was granted, but it nonetheless showcases Shenron's discretion in granting wishes. Since he knew that wasn't what Sorbet was expecting, he advised against the wish.
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Shenron realized that Frieza would be restored, but only in the condition he was in the moment immediately before he died, which was being choppsed to pieces by Future Trunks, and he could not restore Frieza's body to full health. Credence is lent to this theory in the Golden Frieza Saga, where Sorbet wished for Frieza to be brought back to life.
Also, unlike wishes in other literary works, the eternal dragons are actually sentient beings thus, they may be capable of interpreting a wish however they see fit, but usually choose to interpret them how they know the wisher actually wants, as a courtesy rather than as a rule. This is likely so that there is a legitimate reason to pursue the Dragon Balls by the protagonists, as they would not have a justification to rely on them if they knew they would never grant a proper wish. Also, when a victim is revived from the dead, they are not undead, but rather, are truly alive. For example, when King Piccolo wished for youth, he was not reduced to an infant, but rather, appeared in his prime. Unlike other forms of fiction that involve wishes being granted, the Dragon Balls seem to grant a wish exactly as the wisher imagined it, rather than warping the wish so that it is technically granted, but ends up making the wisher's life even more difficult. In the Dragon Ball: Adventure Special, the Dragon Ball manga author, Akira Toriyama, explains that there are seven Dragon Balls because there are eight balls in Hakken-Den, a famous Edo-era Japanese novel, and that he would have hated for them to be exactly the same number, so he had the amount of Dragon Balls be changed to seven in number. The original incarnation of the Dragon Balls in Dragon Boy was the Dragon Jewel. 3.1.2 Minus Energy and the Shadow Dragons.