wrongly

Universal Words adverb in a way that is unfair, immoral or not correct: She was wrongly accused of stealing. * He assumed, wrongly, that she did not care. * The sentence had been wrongly translated. * They knew they had acted wrongly. * Rightly or wrongly, they felt they should have been better informed (= I do not know whether they were right to feel this way). * She was wrongly diagnosed as having skin cancer. -< WRONG