wrongly
- a word derived from wrong.
Example Sentences
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Wrongly decided cases denying women’s suffrage, upholding poll taxes, and invalidating the income tax have also been corrected by way of constitutional amendments.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2022
Wrongly convicted of murder, two men become close friends during decades in a Mississippi penitentiary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019
Wrongly sanitized by the misleading nomenclature “female circumcision,” these procedures have no positive impacts on health.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2019
Wrongly decided once, it was still on the agenda of the nation as a whole.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Wrongly am I called dame; but I know well that he who calls me dame knows not that I am a maid.
From Cliges; a romance by Gardiner, Laetitia Jane
