wrongly
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.
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.
Synonyms: unfairly unjustly dishonestly immorally wrongfully illicitly immodestly improperly incontinently indecently reprehensibly unchastely unseemly unvirtuously wickedly wrongly
- Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.
- I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.
- "The minute I put my nose in that door she was at me for a drop of gin, but having no instructions to supply it, and being strictly teetotal myself, I have not done so, whether rightly or wrongly I leave you to judge,...
- In March 2021, Mr. Livingston finally went up for parole after one of the lawyers from Appellate Advocates, De Nice Powell, argued he had been wrongly sentenced in the razor-blade contraband case and got the sentence...
Synonyms: incorrectly mistakenly erroneously
Origin
From Middle English wrongly, wrongliche, equivalent to wrong + -ly.