wronglyadverb
uk/ˈrɒŋ.li/us/ˈrɑːŋ.li/B2 not correctly:
Several people were wrongly convicted.
He even spelled his own client's name wrongly.
More examples
- The swear word 'bloody' is wrongly thought by some to be a corruption of the words 'by our Lady.'
- Rightly or wrongly, she has been given the post of managing director.
- She sued the paper for damages after they wrongly described her as a prostitute.
- I think these items have been rung up wrongly on the till.
- The parcel was wrongly addressed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- mis-
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
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