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wrongly

adverb

Definition of wrongly

as in incorrectly

in a mistaken or inappropriate way you have wrongly interpreted this passage in the Bible

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Recent Examples of wrongly Palo Alto police confirmed the 49ers coach was at fault and said a clerical error led a state database to wrongly blame the other driver, a 21-year-old woman. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 But that view wrongly supposes that Abundance was meant to be its own electoral lane. — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026 Her lawyers argue that the judge wrongly assessed the effect of the posts, underestimated the seriousness of the meanings conveyed and erred in accepting Wilson’s substantial-truth defense. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2026 People get denied benefits, misrouted or wrongly flagged, and no breach ever triggers an alarm. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 The number of people wrongly registered grew by more than 100 by last year, but the state found that only about 30 ineligible voters had cast ballots. — Geoff Mulvihill, Twin Cities, 21 July 2026 When Livingston lost benefits, she was wrongly enrolled in Healthy Texas Women, a limited program that provides breast and cervical cancer screenings and family planning services. — Rachana Pradhan, NPR, 20 July 2026 Rocha, who has long rejected claims that Peterson was wrongly convicted, dismissed the documentary's claims outright. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026 Robinson plays Henry, an enslaved person working on a plantation in Texas who’s wrongly accused of raping his master’s wife. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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Reuters — The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets registered in the US were incorrectly installed and need to be fixed.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Senior engineering judgment—the ability to spot a bad architecture, understand why a system will fail under load, know when a business rule has been encoded incorrectly—has always been built through years of junior-level struggle.

— Vaibhav Gujral, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of incorrectly

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Jennifer Ruffcorn, spokesperson for Texas Health and Human Services, confirmed that Livingston was erroneously enrolled in Healthy Texas Women.

— Rachana Pradhan, NPR, 20 July 2026
Knappman — the man who reached out to Baldwin last year to fine Anna’s grave — said his grandmother, Maude, erroneously told him that her parents died in a fire in Baltimore.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

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