wrongly

Example Sentences

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She had wrongly assumed there was a regulatory body already in place.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Police wrongly accused a local man, Colin Stagg, who was later cleared, and the real killer, Robert Napper, was not identified for another 12 years.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Rightly or wrongly, recent developments have likely alienated the very crowd that constitutes a Tony viewership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Because rightly or wrongly, I got stuck on one single sentence the woman uttered.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama