WRONGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrongly mean? 

• WRONGLY (adverb)
  The adverb WRONGLY has 2 senses:

1. without justice or fairness

2. in an inaccurate manner

  Familiarity information: WRONGLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRONGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without justice or fairness

Context example:

wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win

Pertainym:

wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an inaccurate manner

Synonyms:

incorrectly; wrong; wrongly

Context example:

she guessed wrong

Antonym:

right (in an accurate manner)

Pertainym:

wrong (characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules)

 Context examples 

Because I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I hastened to put myself between them, and to assure her that we would all take care that he should make the utmost restitution of everything he had wrongly got.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)