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

Eight of them were deemed to have been ruled wrongly by the on-field officials. — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Starting next year, Illinois will have new safeguards in place to prevent parents from being wrongly accused of child abuse or neglect when their children visit a doctor or hospital emergency room for unexplained injuries or ailments. — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

But the hostility toward Jews was evident during the Dreyfus affair, which saw Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Palo Alto police that day confirmed Shanahan was at fault and said a clerical error had led a state database to wrongly blame the other driver. — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026

He is often understood, rightly and wrongly, as a kind of unfiltered confessional poet. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

All three consumer icons had freshly announced new CEOs, which were wrongly greeted with hasty skepticism from analysts. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

The state of Delaware wrongly seized and liquidated his stock after the man didn’t log into his trading account for years. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026