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# wrongfully

«wrongfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **unfairly or against the law (formal, law)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Wrongfully means unfairly or against the law (formal, law). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In news and law, someone wrongfully accused or wrongfully imprisoned was treated unfairly. Phrases: wrongfully accused, wrongfully convicted.

### examples

- He was wrongfully accused of stealing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x1)
- She was wrongfully imprisoned for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x2)
- The worker was wrongfully dismissed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x3)
- The dog was wrongfully blamed for the mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x4)
- They were wrongfully punished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x5)
- The court freed the wrongfully convicted man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x6)
- They were now on their way to Greece, in hopes of getting back a kingdom that had been wrongfully taken from their father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/#x7)

### note

Formal. Adjective: wrongful. Do not confuse with «wrongly» (in a mistaken way).

### In the corpora

- [But mine enemies are strong in health; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.633/)
- [Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.555/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrongfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.