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View definitions for wrongfully

wrongfully

adverb as in unjustly

adverb as in wrongly

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Swidan had been jailed for 12 years on a drug charge and, along with Li and Leung, was considered by the State Department to be wrongfully detained.

"Thanks to this Administration’s efforts and diplomacy with the PRC, all of the wrongfully detained Americans in the PRC are home," the NSC spokesperson said.

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All public officials will also be personally held responsible under Indian laws if a demolition is carried out wrongfully, the judgement added.

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“The recent pardons he’s given don’t make up for these abuses, and it’s a disgrace that he has been granted this award while many still remain wrongfully detained,” she said.

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In March, Trump wrote on his Truth Social account that one of his first acts as president would be to “Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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