Wrongly
['rɔŋli]
Definition
(adv.) without justice or fairness; 'wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win'- Shakespeare.
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.
Typed by Jared
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Erroneously, WRONG, amiss.
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The present question for us to decide is, whether I am wrongly attaching a meaning to a mere accident? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Perhaps I read her letters wrongly in the past, and am now reading her face wrongly in the present? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He rightly believed me to have made a new nightgown secretly, but he wrongly believed the paint-stained nightgown to be mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Because I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am wrongly made, Thomasin, she added, with a mournful smile. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Am I acting wrongly to detain you here? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There would be a satisfaction in being buried by Mr. Cadwallader, whose very name offered a fine opportunity for pronouncing wrongly if you liked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was the mere reading of the sentence--of the crime she had long ago been guilty--the crime of loving wrongly, too violently, against reason. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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