wrongly

Example Sentences

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Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Rightly or wrongly, recent developments have likely alienated the very crowd that constitutes a Tony viewership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A police officer has been "forced to relocate to protect himself and his family", after being wrongly identified online as being involved in the case, she said.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

This is because it is assumed there will be fewer patients wrongly diagnosed because of lack of access to records and more of the frail elderly will be treated in their communities.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton