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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

This is because it is assumed there will be fewer patients wrongly diagnosed because of lack of access to records and more of the frail elderly will be treated in their communities.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Some we questioned would not stop to answer, others did not know, many in trying to be helpful directed us wrongly.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya