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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wrongly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wrongly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wrongly is tagged as adverb.
Does wrongly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — wrongly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
