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• The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.From the entry round up
• I decided, rightly or wrongly, not to tell her about the pregnancy.From the entry rightly or wrongly
• Some people wrongly assume that adult baby fetishism is connected to paedophilia.2015 March 26, John Lucas, “This Is What a Night at One of London's Adult Baby Parties Is Actually Like”, in Vice. From the entry adult baby
• When attacking Empedocles he, rightly or wrongly, treats his zoogony as embryology.2014, Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, page 289. From the entry zoogony
• But we have wrongly assumed gender-neutrality in the single standard and in this common tongue.1987 May 10, Peg Boyles, “Dare to recover Mother Tongue”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 231, number 130, page NH 4. From the entry gender-neutrality
• The term workalcoholic, continued Carney, is wrongly used in a negative context.1981, Army Research, Development and Acquisition. From the entry workalcoholic
• A considerable number of us injure noses, sinuses or middle ears in wrongly performing this simple act.1965 August 2, “Gesundheit, Everybody”, in Leroy A. Simms, editor, The Huntsville Times, volume 56, number 133, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN…. From the entry sneezery
• Might it have been any different had Leroy Sané’s goal, late in the first half, not been wrongly given offside?2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London). From the entry escapology
• In Chochmah the angels are Auphanims, called wheels, by the prophet Ezekiel who wrongly placed them in the order of Cherubims.2001, Adewale Thompson, The Invisible World, page 58. From the entry Auphanim
• Knowing my love of aviation, several friends and relatives wrongly assumed we have named him after the Curtiss Aircraft Company.1999, Bernie Runstedler, Jr., Breezes Against My Brow, General Store Publishing House., →ISBN, page 77. From the entry Curtis
• Satan is wrongly called the hero of Paradise Lost.1992, Karuna Shanker Mishra, The Tragic Hero Through the Ages, page 242. From the entry hero
• Sinpham onaba ( wrong choice of profession ) is a miswork representing the kind of work which is wrongly pursued.1988, Moirangthem Kirti Singh, Religion and Culture of Manipur, page 69. From the entry miswork
• The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices.2025 April 9, Alicia Wallace, “The next round of Trump’s tariffs could hurt even more. Here’s what to expect”, in CNN Business. From the entry AEI
• One often sees the beginnings of this deeply conservative, if not reservative literature –probably wrongly – in the 'hostility to automata' Jean Paul's and E.T.A.2024, Hans-Georg Soeffner, The Designed Myth, page 29. From the entry reservative
• Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146. From the entry misread
• We start with the Concise Oxford, which we call the COD. (We call the Canadian Oxford the CanOD.) It had six Canadianisms, four wrongly defined.2007, Joe Clark “Barber–Colombo” at fawny.org (quoting Katherine Barber, editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary). From the entry CanOD
• Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.2003, D. F. Buck, “Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate”, in Byzantion, volume LXXIII, Brussels, page 303. From the entry Maximus
• The issue of technology, in general, was very wrongly conceived and thus mistackled in many developing countries during the past three decades.1999, Maher Aziz Bedrous, Emad El-Sharkawi, S.B. Abdel Hamid, and Waeil Saleh Kaddour, “Re-Appraisal for Energy Technology Sustaining…. From the entry mistackle
• Sometimes Prakrit words were wrongly Sanskritised.1965, D. C. Sircar [i.e., Dineshchandra Sircar], “Technical Expressions”, in Indian Epigraphy, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers…. From the entry Sanskritize
• I’ll call these words subordinators (some linguists call them “complementizers,” and traditional grammars call them “subordinating conjunctions” and wrongly throw a whole bunch of prepositions in with them).2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, pages 85-86. From the entry subordinator
• However, if a wing is wrongly clustered, it, in effect, has introduced a spurious wing in one cluster and its rightful cluster will be missing a wing.1992, Greg Chungmou Lee, Reconstruction of Line Drawing Graphs from Fused Range and Intensity Imagery. From the entry miscluster
• Some people still speak, wrongly, of the leopards of England, but it does no great harm as it is an ancient expression and everybody knows what it means.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 68–69. From the entry leopard
• He added that immaculate disinflation wrongly suggested that the trend was unexplainable, when “disinflation is primarily due to the fading economic fallout from the pandemic and Russian war in Ukraine”.2024 March 19, Valentina Romei, “Central bankers see ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach”, in Financial Times, archived from the…. From the entry immaculate disinflation
• Lenin castigated, in friend and foe alike, any tendency to compromise even verbally with religion, or to side-step ontological questions on the ground that they were wrongly formulated or insoluble.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry verbally
• This factish, leftish derivation of the old dictum, “Art is art precisely in that it is not Nature,” by wrongly interpreting the word Nature, utterly betrayed the master's poetic sense.1971, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Henry Sullivan, Genius and the Mobocracy, page 158. From the entry factish
• Known as astragalomancy or astragyromancy, this method is supposed, righdy or wrongly, to make clear to man the designs of providence, the will of the gods, the decrees of fate.1970, Richard Cavendish, Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. From the entry astragyromancy

Meaning of wrongly

1. adverb In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.
2. adverb Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.

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Questions about wrongly in a sentence

How do you use wrongly in a sentence?

Wrongly is used as an adverb. For example: “I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.”

What is a short sentence with wrongly?

“Sometimes Prakrit words were wrongly Sanskritised.”

What does wrongly mean?

Wrongly means in violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.