wrongly

Word family  noun wrong adjective wrong wrongful verb wrong adverb wrong wrongly wrongfully

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++wrong·ly /ˈrɒŋli $ ˈrɒːŋ-/ ●●○ adverb  1  WRONG/INCORRECTnot correctly or in a way that is not based on facts 不正确地；错误地 OPP rightly Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumour. 马修被误诊有脑瘤。 His name had been wrongly spelt. 他的名字被拼错了。2  UNFAIRin a way that is unfair or immoral 不公正地；不道德地 OPP rightly Human rights organizations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted. 人权组织坚称这些人被错判了。 → rightly or wrongly at rightly

Examples from the Corpus

wrongly• They feel guilty - quite wrongly.• Perrin had wrongly assumed that he would not get caught.• His lawyer says he was entrapped by overzealous prosecutors who wrongly characterized campaign contributions as bribes.• Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumor.• But, rightly or wrongly, Eden's tenure in Downing Street is remembered as a single-issue premiership.• In any event, the Richmond City Council has supported its determination that minorities have been wrongly excluded from local construction contracting.• Rightly or wrongly, it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982.• Sometimes our pictures are so inaccurate that we see a person wrongly or miss him altogether.• One imagines, probably quite wrongly, that the moon must be like the wilder areas of Sutherland.• If you accidentally reformat characters wrongly, undo the reformatting straight away.

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wrongly
wrong‧ly /ˈrɒŋli $ ˈrɒːŋ-/ adverb1. not correctly or in a way that is not based on facts
   OPP  rightly:
    Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumour.
    His name had been wrongly spelt.
2. in a way that is unfair or immoral
   OPP  rightly:
    Human rights organizations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted.
⇨ rightly or wrongly at rightly

🔑 wrong·lyBrE /ˈrɒŋli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈrɔːŋli/ 🔊 adverbin a way that is unfair, immoral or not correct 不公正地；不道德地；错误地◆She was wrongly accused of stealing. 她被诬告犯了偷盗罪。🔊🔊◆He assumed, wrongly, that she did not care. 他误以为她并不在乎。🔊🔊◆The sentence had been wrongly translated. 这个句子翻译错了。🔊🔊◆They knew they had acted wrongly. 他们知道他们做得不对。🔊🔊◆Rightly or wrongly, they felt they should have been better informed (= I do not know whether they were right to feel this way). 不论对错，他们觉得本该让他们了解到更多的情况。🔊🔊

• In informal language wrong can be used as an adverb instead of wrongly, when it means 'incorrectly' and comes after a verb or its object. 在非正式用法中，wrong 可作副词代替 wrongly，表示错误地，置于动词或动词宾语之后：◆My name was spelled wrong. 我的名字拼错了。◆I'm afraid you guessed wrong. 恐怕你猜错了。 Wrongly is used before a past participle or a that clause. * wrongly 用于过去分词或 that 从句之前：◆My name was wrongly spelt. 我的名字拼错了。◆She guessed wrongly that he was a teacher. 她误以为他是个教师。
• Wrongfully is usually used in a formal legal situation with words like convicted, dismissed and imprisoned. * wrongfully 通常用于正式的法律场合，与 convicted、dismissed、imprisoned 等词连用。