wrongly

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

A serving officer, Tristan Parsons, was also wrongly accused online and has been relocated after receiving threats.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 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

At first she was simply intrigued by the basic things she didn’t know, and the many things she’d wrongly presumed.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers