wrongly

Example Sentences

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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

Wrongly viewed as a failure because it is not more like Facebook, Twitter risks becoming a failure by trying to become more like Facebook.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2016

Wrongly answered, there will come only fruits of selfishness and evil, which may simulate virtue, but the blossom shall go up in dust, and the root in stubble.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander