Definition: 1. Without justice or fairness. 2. In an incorrect manner. 3. In a way that is unfair, immoral or not correct.
Use 'wrongly' in a sentence:
1. She addressed the parcel wrongly.
2. 4000 doors were wrongly numbered.
3. His bank wrongly bounced cheques worth £ 75,000.
4. The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted.
5. Glenn Schellenberg's latest research suggests many psychologists and neuroscientists wrongly believe in the causal relationship between music and IQ.
6. I faced this problem wrongly.
7. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women.
8. She was wrongly labelled a liar.
9. These children are likely to be wrongly placed in school.
10. An Oreo is a racist wrongly assuming that intelligence, articulateness, dapperness, and manners are traits of whites and not blacks.
11. The fascination with the ICT ( Information and Communication Technology) revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so "yesterday" that they should try to live on ideas .
12. The first wrongly assumes that the pterosaurs' hind feet resembled a bat's and could serve as hooks by which the animal could hang in preparation for flight.
13. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
14. He assumed, wrongly, that she did not care.
15. Who cares if people think wrongly that the Internet has had more important influences than the washing machine?
16. While creating the topic, I type wrongly several times.
17. Could it be that it was written wrongly?
18. Rightly or wrongly , many older people are afraid of violence in the streets.
19. She was wrongly accused of stealing.
20. Please circumscribe the words which are wrongly spelled.
21. The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
22. You should apologize to her for blaming her wrongly.
23. Because I have been wrongly accused, and you and everybody else, will now think me a bad girl.
24. Her remarks were wrongly construed.
25. "These errors no more invalidate Ms. Merian's work than do well-known misconceptions published by Charles Darwin or Isaac Newton," Dr. Etheridge wrote in a paper that argued that too many have wrongly focused on the mistakes of her work.
26. Let me, as a witness, tell them what happened so that they will not be wrongly informed.
27. Rightly or wrongly, many older people are afraid of violence in the streets.
28. This word is wrongly used.
29. I was wrongly accused.
30. Well, wrongly accused people tend to be that way.
31. Everybody knows he was wrongly accused.
32. 'Suisse' had been wrongly translated as 'Sweden'.
33. But if used wrongly, it can also lead to harm.
34. People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop.
35. Etheridge wrote in a paper that argued that too many have wrongly focused on the mistakes of her work.
36. Other Europeans wrongly thought them migrant Egyptians, hence the derivative Gypsy.
37. Other Europeans (wrongly) thought them migrant Egyptians, hence the derivative Gypsy.
38. The sentence had been wrongly translated.
39. The magazine wrongly suggested he was a liar and a hypocrite.
40. A child was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumor.
41. The house is wrongly reputed to have been the poet's birthplace.
42. Rightly or wrongly, they felt they should have been better informed.
43. The 'b' had been wrongly written as a 'd'.
44. She guessed wrongly that he was a teacher.
45. They knew they had acted wrongly.
46. My name was wrongly spelt.
47. Researchers wrongly assumed that people were quite clear about the demands of the task.