wrongly

adverb

Definition of wronglynext
as in incorrectly
in a mistaken or inappropriate way you have wrongly interpreted this passage in the Bible

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Recent Examples of wrongly But the hostility toward Jews was evident during the Dreyfus affair, which saw Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026 Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 He is often understood, rightly and wrongly, as a kind of unfiltered confessional poet. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 All three consumer icons had freshly announced new CEOs, which were wrongly greeted with hasty skepticism from analysts. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 The state of Delaware wrongly seized and liquidated his stock after the man didn’t log into his trading account for years. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026 AirHelp says airlines wrongly reject 58 percent of valid claims on first response, and Josefsson doesn't expect that to change. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 The City of Bloomington, Minnesota, has settled a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was wrongly arrested back in 2021. — Ubah Ali, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 One study even found that many people wrongly believe that vaping and pouch use are as harmful or even more harmful than smoking. — Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrongly
  1. incorrectly
  2. mistakenly
  3. erroneously
Adverb
  • The result can be a company that AI fails to recognize, recognizes incorrectly or resolves in favor of a competitor.
    — Joseph Byrum, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The mayor’s office took that step after learning that citations were being incorrectly handed to vendors in MacArthur Park, a situation reported by LA Public Press.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of incorrectly
Adverb
  • The fatal shooting by police responding to a report of a possible break-in distinguishes Pysher’s death from several other instances in which residents have shot people who mistakenly showed up at their homes.
    — Holly Ramer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • When the group decided to move the party to a house nearby, Pysher walked there alone and mistakenly knocked on the wrong door.
    — Tom Hanson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of mistakenly
Adverb
  • The certification for this device was granted erroneously and has been set aside by the FCC and removed from our public database.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The Internal Revenue Service decided many nonprofit NIL collectives were erroneously given charitable status.
    — James Pollard, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of erroneously

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“Wrongly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongly. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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