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Antonyms for wrongly

Grammar : Adv
Spell : rawng, rong
Phonetic Transcription : rɔŋ, rɒŋ

Definition of wrongly

Origin :
  • late Old English, "twisted, crooked, wry," from Old Norse rangr, earlier *wrangr "crooked, wry, wrong," from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (cf. Danish vrang "crooked, wrong," Middle Dutch wranc, Dutch wrang "sour, bitter," literally "that which distorts the mouth"), from PIE *wrengh- "to turn" (see wring).
  • Sense of "not right, bad, immoral, unjust" developed by c.1300. Wrong thus is etymologically a negative of right (from Latin rectus, literally "straight"). Latin pravus was literally "crooked," but most commonly "wrong, bad;" and other words for "crooked" also have meant "wrong" in Italian and Slavic. Cf. also French tort "wrong, injustice," from Latin tortus "twisted." Wrong-headed first recorded 1732. To get up on the wrong side (of the bed) "be in a bad mood" is recorded from 1801.
  • adv unjustly
  • adv incorrectly
Example sentences :
  • His motive in doing so is that the wrongly suspected may be cleared.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Falsepeace insisted that he was wrongly named in the indictment.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • Light and heavy are wrongly explained with reference to a lower and higher in place.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • There was a sort of scoff in it which rightly or wrongly he took to himself.
  • Extract from : « The Missionary » by George Griffith
  • They run a great risk of not understanding them at all, or of understanding them wrongly.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois
  • That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed.
  • Extract from : « G-r-r-r...! » by Roger Arcot
  • Rightly or wrongly, the man's story inspired me with a dreadful sympathy.
  • Extract from : « The Making Of A Novelist » by David Christie Murray
  • The "Gesta" have been wrongly attributed to Pierre Bercheur.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand
  • The date 1328 has long but wrongly been believed to be the true one.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand
  • It is curious to note how some of these famous sayings have been wrongly assigned.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan

Synonyms for wrongly

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