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# wrongly

«wrongly» in Mova's school dictionary: **not correct; by mistake (spelled wrongly)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (wrongly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that is not correct; by mistake (spelled wrongly). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#m1)

2) In a way that is unfair or morally wrong (wrongly blamed). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, words, sums and answers can be done wrongly; checking your work catches mistakes. In stories and citizenship lessons, people can be wrongly accused or blamed — fairness means checking the facts. Phrases: wrongly accused, wrongly blamed, rightly or wrongly, wrongly spelled.

### examples

- The word was spelled wrongly on the poster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x1)
- He was wrongly blamed for breaking the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x2)
- I added the numbers wrongly, so I got the wrong answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x3)
- Rightly or wrongly, she decided to leave early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x4)
- The letter was wrongly delivered to our house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x5)
- The thief was caught and the man who was wrongly accused was set free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrongly/#x6)

### note

«Wrongly» is used before a past participle (wrongly accused, wrongly spelled). After a verb, everyday English often uses «wrong»: You spelled it wrong. Both «spelled it wrong» and «spelled it wrongly» are correct.

### In the corpora

- [AI "detectors" exist, but they make mistakes and can wrongly accuse honest pupils.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/6/)
- [AI detector tools are not always right and can wrongly accuse honest pupils.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/14/)
- [It was reported that some students were wrongly accused of cheating by AI detectors; keeping drafts and notes helps show honest work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/16/)
- [It was reported that a tribunal made an airline honour what its website chatbot had wrongly promised a customer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/16/)
- [mis- means wrongly: misread, misspell, misbehave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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