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View definitions for wrongly

wrongly

adverb as in unjustly

adverb as in incorrectly

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Example Sentences

Snook, from Hartcliffe, Bristol, drove down Ilminster Avenue and when they saw Mason and Max in the street they wrongly believed they had spotted those responsible for the attack.

From BBC

Firing thousands of federal employees could cause all manner of disruptions in people’s lives — Social Security checks delayed and IRS refunds wrongly denied.

From Salon

"So why does it take so long for a government, who have already accepted that he has been wrongly convicted, to accept him onto a scheme that provides compensation for people who have been wrongly convicted?"

From BBC

The following morning, Audrey F was told that the excluded student's father Brahim Chnina was outside the school with another man, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who wrongly claimed to be acting on behalf of French imams.

From BBC

The troubled organisation is currently the subject of a long-running inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software made it appear money was missing from their accounts.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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