wrongly
Example Sentences
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The court heard that Tajzai, an Afghan asylum seeker, wrongly believed Sherzad belonged to the Taliban, which had kidnapped his father and was suspected of killing him.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Gibbs said that the continuing support for Letby had taken a toll on him and other consultants, and that claims she had been wrongly convicted were "frustrating and difficult" to hear.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Douglass compared government and the Constitution to “a ship and a compass”: the latter could point correctly while the former steered wrongly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He became an international superstar in 1935 in “Captain Blood,” as a wrongly accused doctor who escapes slavery and takes up piracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
He interpreted Bodin, quite wrongly, as advocating a very large sphere of earth floating in a sphere of water, thus retaining the core principles of a traditional Aristotelian argument.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
