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Wrongly meaning

  1. In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.
  2. Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.

Synonyms of Wrongly

Using Wrongly

  • The main meaning on this page is: In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice. | Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.
  • Useful related words include: incorrectly, wrong, right, correctly.
  • In the example corpus, wrongly often appears in combinations such as: was wrongly, were wrongly, been wrongly.

Context around Wrongly

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Wrongly

  • In this selection, "wrongly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, pharmacy, goal, chisholm, ruled, declared and fired stand out and add context to how "wrongly" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a goal wrongly ruled out and after being wrongly accused of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "wrongly" sits close to words such as attire, bates and battleground, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with wrongly

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Concourt already wrongly ruled on this and said ECL was eligible. (11 words)

Defence solicitor Stephen Morrison said Thomson wrongly thought it was a friend’s home he had entered. (17 words)

Advocates of the technology say it has been wrongly misjudged as not useful in Scotland given our dreary weather. (19 words)

Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 14, died on Sunday night in Columbia, South Carolina, after being wrongly accused of shoplifting by Rick Chow, the 58-year-old owner of a Shell gas station which has been known to have problems with violence and shoplifters. (42 words)

A Christian nurse practitioner has filed a federal lawsuit against CVS Health, charging that a CVS pharmacy wrongly fired her from her job after it ended her longtime accommodation of her religious objections to contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. (39 words)

A 20-year-old Michigan woman found alive in a funeral home in August after being wrongly declared dead is now genuinely dead—and her relatives blame the earlier mistake for her demise. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

A 20-year-old Michigan woman found alive in a funeral home in August after being wrongly declared dead is now genuinely dead—and her relatives blame the earlier mistake for her demise.

A Christian nurse practitioner has filed a federal lawsuit against CVS Health, charging that a CVS pharmacy wrongly fired her from her job after it ended her longtime accommodation of her religious objections to contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs.

Advocates of the technology say it has been wrongly misjudged as not useful in Scotland given our dreary weather.

A man has been ordered to stay away from his former partner after he made threats to kill a man he wrongly believed was her new boyfriend.

And if we don't get any sixes for a while, we wrongly assume that there must have been loads of sixes in the past.

And I have to say, by the way, it should have been three-nil to Derby against Exeter because Nathaniel Mendez-Laing had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside.

And Ms. Child’s longtime producer that he was wrongly shown as skeptical about her first cooking program — a barrier-breaking success for a woman on television in the 1960s.

And the elephant in the room is that Watt has faced, rightly or wrongly, a lot of flak in recent years.

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As well, Larochelle argued Chisholm wrongly assumed an assault on Andre would have resulted in him suddenly jerking the steering wheel.

Back down the other end, Naylor had a goal ruled out for offside, perhaps wrongly, after some pinball in the box from a corner.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has sued the liquidators overseeing the wind-down of its Bahamian affiliate FTX Digital Markets, accusing them of wrongly claiming ownership of the exchange’s assets.

Barrister, Joe Brolly, characterised him as a "computer geek" who wrongly became a suspect because of his links with Irish republicanism.

Barry George, who was wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando, has been spotted visiting his sister who lives Ireland.

Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, had been thrown out of the White Hart pub in Sheep Street, Bicester, after door staff thought – wrongly – they were under the influence of drugs.

But he kyboshed it himself after presuming, wrongly it turned out, that Bolton Wanderers, Tranmere’s arch-rivals, were the team involved when manager John King informed him of a bid.

But it was often mis-sold to customers - for example, to those who could never claim on it, or in cases where people were wrongly told they needed it.

Concourt already wrongly ruled on this and said ECL was eligible.

Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 14, died on Sunday night in Columbia, South Carolina, after being wrongly accused of shoplifting by Rick Chow, the 58-year-old owner of a Shell gas station which has been known to have problems with violence and shoplifters.

Defence solicitor Stephen Morrison said Thomson wrongly thought it was a friend’s home he had entered.

Even Suhasini Maniratnam wrongly credited Ilaiyaraaja for the songs for ’s film Valli, and the superstar had to correct her and say that the songs were composed by Ilaiyaraaja’s son Karthik Raja.

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Common combinations with wrongly

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "wrongly" in a sentence?
An example: "A 20-year-old Michigan woman found alive in a funeral home in August after being wrongly declared dead is now genuinely dead—and her relatives blame the earlier mistake for her demise." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "wrongly" from authentic English texts.
What does "wrongly" mean?
Wrongly means: In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.
What are synonyms of "wrongly"?
Common synonyms of "wrongly" include: incorrectly, wrong, right, correctly.
How many example sentences with "wrongly" are there?
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