adv Incorrectly or by mistake.
- 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, doctor.
— Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish? (1950)
- 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 reduced.
— Maria Cramer, He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him (2023)
- I wrongly assumed the store was open on Sundays, so I drove there for nothing.
- The word was wrongly spelled on the sign outside the bakery.
- I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.
- The package was wrongly addressed and never arrived.
adv In an unfair or unjust manner.
- The students felt they had been wrongly punished for something they did not do.
- She was wrongly accused of taking the money, and her friends defended her.
- He was wrongly blamed for the accident.
