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wrongly

— adverb without justice or fairness wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win — Shakespeare — adverb (= incorrectly, wrong) in an inaccurate manner he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly she guessed wrong

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incorrectly falsely erroneously improperly wrong unjustly mistakenly badly wrongfully unjustifiably unrighteously unfairly undeservedly faultily by mistake unwarrantably untruly untidily unsuitably unscrupulously unproperly unlawfully unfitly unethical underservedly unconstitutionally unbecomingly the wrong way round poorly perversely lyingly invidiously iniquitously inequitably ineffectively inconveniently inadvertently inaccurately in vain immoral illegally false disparagingly disorderly depreciatingly defectively deceitfully cut contrary to law contrary to justice

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Misunderstand

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misunderstand understand wrong fail to understand misinterpret interpret wrongly miss the meaning get it wrong mishear be mistaken lose (someone) lack of understanding

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Simple sentences

Having been wrongly addressed, the letter never reached him.

If it is wrongly used, the medicine will be a poison.

The letter was wrongly addressed.

This letter is wrongly addressed.

I still haven't received your e-mail. Maybe you wrote down my e-mail address wrongly?

Mary was wrongly imprisoned for nearly 10 years.

That woman has wrongly accused me.

I'm afraid I have addressed the parcel wrongly.

Movie subtitles

It was a woman, uh, wanting me to pick up her dead husband, and I wrote down the address, but I noted it wrongly, obviously, because it didn't seem to exist.

And mostly wrongly. And mostly wrongly.

At your age, my dear Frederik, One considers wrongly youth and beauty as qualities.

You would wrongly interpret the words of Master Jan.

I'm sorry if I've done wrongly.

Mind you don'tjudge me wrongly.

Then you understood wrongly.

For ghosts, let's use the word, to be phenomena that were badly observed and wrongly explained.

Then I guess I heared wrongly.

I assumed, wrongly, that it was a fault.

I judged you wrongly.

Wouldst not play false, yet wouldst wrongly win.

I was wrongly convicted for a robbery.

Then a cashier loses his boss's money by betting wrongly on future results at the horse races.

He's only drawn her and quite wrongly!

You tell them you're innocent and wrongly arrested.

I acted wrongly toward you.

A person dear to you has opened her heart to me and charged me to tell you, trusting, perhaps wrongly, that your consideration for me.

Everybody now believes that you and Marthy killed Donato and stampeded the cattle and accused Carter wrongly.

I suppose it's possible for. For ghosts, let's use the word, to be phenomena that were badly observed and wrongly explained.

Can you leave this poor young man with his mind wrongly housed?

Dr. Okada, you judge us wrongly.

I assumed wrongly, that it was a fault.

That's a hygienic thing I imagined wrongly.

You behaved wrongly, I've been wanting to tell you that.

Sight, for example, wrongly tells us that the earth, the moon and the sun are larger than the stars.

If the child was accused wrongly.why didn't he complain?

I wrongly accused.

Still, you're wrongly connecting that carillon with Joachim Stiller.

But you have mixed up wrongly!

The only remaining witness is the man who. rightly or wrongly has given his name to this whole affair.

Sometimes I think so wrongly. because I'm thinking as if I was talking to someone else.

Worf. this child's family wrongly took your name and your honor from you.

News and current affairs

The World Bank has instead wrongly seen such vital public investments as an enemy of private-sector development.

But if a bunch of speculators decide (rightly or wrongly) that a government's debt is overpriced, they can force down its price, thereby forcing up its yield (the interest rate that the government must pay).

But when the downturn affects distinct groups differently, especially when members of some groups are (rightly or wrongly) perceived as doing better than the others, the second comparison gains significance as well.

But, ultimately, his chief failure had been to hand power to military and civilian hawks - wrongly called conservatives, for their vision was a radical reordering of Europe.

In his annual economic report in February 2002, and again in February 2003 and February 2004, Bush confidently - and wrongly - predicted that his tax cut would create millions of jobs.

Even before the crisis, it was clear that citizens and governments alike regarded (wrongly) the euro as a mere practicality.

The changes in how teachers are evaluated and their labor rights (wrongly described as an education reform), together with changes to tax and telecommunications legislation, belong to the first category; energy and political reforms belong to the second.

Indeed, I have complained so loudly and vociferously about the problems of globalization that many have wrongly concluded that I belong to the anti-globalization movement.

Rightly or wrongly, we have more confidence in the correctness and appropriateness of political decisions made by democratically-elected representatives than of decisions implicitly made as the unanticipated consequences of market processes.

Moreover, Lionel Jospin's elimination from the presidential election in 2002 by the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen is widely interpreted - wrongly in my opinion - as the result of the Socialists' pro-European position.

In countries where order may break down at any moment, it may not be better--as it is in stable, well ordered countries--to let ten guilty men go free rather than punish one innocent man wrongly.

Even those Europeans who believe - wrongly - that democracy does not easily take root in post-Soviet countries should recognize that our people now feel empowered.

Few financiers in London or New York could have named any bank other than Bank of China, which was often wrongly thought to be the central bank.

Instead, it bullies others to get its way, wrongly identifying its narrow interests as a creditor with those of the system as a whole.

This is not just a problem for people who think - wrongly, in legal terms - that they own their bodies, as most people do.

The developed world sometimes wrongly feels that it is being asked to care for a disproportionate number of people seeking a better life.

But their ad wrongly implies that those double standards lead to the oppression of Arab and Iranian gays.

Instead, like many Islamic countries today, India wrongly believed Gandhi's doctrine that modernization necessarily means Westernization.

Europe's inability to play a political role in the Middle East peace process was wrongly diagnosed as resulting from a European bias against Israel.

The government had been under longstanding international pressure to honor at least some of its international commitments to contain Hezbollah, and it wrongly calculated that the group would only respond in a limited way.

As a consequence, they are crowding into bonds and debt instruments that they view, rightly or wrongly, as safe vehicles.

The message from the media was one of constant nagging and blame, such as the famous Newsweek cover that asserted (wrongly) that an older single woman had more likelihood of being in a terrorist attack than of finding a husband.

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