Definition of Wrongly

Wrongly

In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.

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Wrongly Quotations

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
Charles Seymour

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
David Packard

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
Freddy Fender

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia

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Wrongly Translations

wrongly in French is faussement
wrongly in Italian is erroneamente
wrongly in Latin is secus, perperam, male peius pessime
wrongly in Spanish is mal
wrongly in Swedish is felaktigt

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