wrongly

Example Sentences

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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

BBC Verify has also obtained evidence that current police officer Tristan Parsons, who was also wrongly accused online of being involved, was not in the country at the time of Nowak's murder.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

A police officer has been "forced to relocate to protect himself and his family", after being wrongly identified online as being involved in the case, she said.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Other words are used wrongly, too—beautiful, future, us.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti