wrongly

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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

However, the Supreme Court heard arguments that Cheshire West was wrongly decided and creates an unsustainable administrative burden on health and social care systems.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Confusingly, the other great Roman text to survive is Ad Herennium—which was roughly contemporary with Cicero, and was for centuries wrongly attributed to him.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith