Synonyms of wrongly

wrongly

adverb

as in incorrectly

in a mistaken or inappropriate way

you have wrongly interpreted this passage in the Bible

Synonyms & Similar Words

• incorrectly
• mistakenly
• erroneously
• inaccurately
• inappropriately
• improperly
• unsuitably
• faultily
• inaptly
• inadequately
• imperfectly
• misguidedly
• insufficiently
• irrelevantly
• unwisely
• senselessly
• pointlessly
• meaninglessly
• extraneously
• amiss
• unsatisfactorily
• undesirably
• foolishly
• fallibly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rightly
• properly
• correctly
• appropriately
• well
• aptly
• right
• suitably
• fittingly
• perfectly
• sensibly
• infallibly
• meaningfully
• adequately
• sufficiently
• pertinently
• satisfactorily
• acceptably
• wisely
• relevantly
• prudently
• sagely
• germanely

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wrongly

Robinson plays Henry, an enslaved person working on a plantation in Texas who’s wrongly accused of raping his master’s wife. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

And getting criticized as Pusilic has—rightly or wrongly—can add injury to injury. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Both the uniform player contract and CBA contain language that permits Silver to punish Leonard if the commissioner concludes Leonard acted wrongly. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 July 2026

Anne and Abel rarely brought up the past with Michael and Robby, but when Ethel and Julius did come up, the Meeropols reinforced their sons’ impression of them as brave, principled people who had been wrongly executed. — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

Flock’s overreach is already so vast that, in Feder’s case, he was warned to drive straight home and not cross into the neighboring towns — where their own Flock cameras would wrongly flag his car and sic the cops on him, too. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 July 2026

McCoy is not the only arrestee to have died in custody in recent years while wrongly held by the Sheriff’s Office. — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Trump has repeatedly and wrongly asserted that fraud cost him reelection in 2020, and his administration has put forth a series of policies and actions aimed at how elections are run. — ABC News, 8 July 2026

When it was overturned, however, the United States rightly or wrongly became the evil empire to the rest of world soccer. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026