wrongly

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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 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 held responsible for a fire in the world's tallest building, former FBI agent and security expert Dwayne Johnson must bring the guilty parties to justice and rescue his family.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2018

Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him Wrongly of slumber, rudely of rest.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney