adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spell sth wrong/wrongly
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You’ve spelled my name wrong.
wrongly/rightly
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This hotel can rightly claim that it has some of the best views on the island.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
accuse
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The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine.
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When Dorothea Brooke announces to her uncle that Lydgate is being wrongly accused , he cautions her not to take rash action.
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All too frequently, Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities.
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The defense contends that linking those dots properly reveals a picture of Simpson as an innocent man wrongly accused .
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It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair.
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Evans was wrongly accused and hanged for murder in the famous Christie case.
assume
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Many people wrongly assume that all they have automatically goes to their loved ones.
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Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification.
convict
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Relatives of the men say they were wrongly convicted , as they had acted in self defence.
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Yesterday an appeal court found Nick was wrongly convicted .
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Read in studio A police investigation has been launched into claims that two men were wrongly convicted of murder.
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If the defendant states he was wrongly convicted , he puts that fact in issue in the civil proceedings.
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Colin Oliver never stopped following his favourite team despite being jailed after he was wrongly convicted of manslaughter.
decide
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In my opinion both these cases were wrongly decided .
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It evidently included an assertion that the local authority had wrongly decided that he was intentionally homeless.
spelt
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Action: Keyword IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt .
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Action: Keyword SELECTED-ISSUE, PREFERRED-ISSUE-IN-FILE or LATEST-ISSUE-IN-FILE not found or wrongly spelt .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rightly or wrongly
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Rightly or wrongly, most employees regard annual raises as just cost-of-living increases.
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But, rightly or wrongly, Eden's tenure in Downing Street is remembered as a single-issue premiership.
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His unexpected presence may be interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as a deed deliberately intended to express his courage or defiance.
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Many men believed, whether rightly or wrongly, that the locals could find out about operations before they themselves did.
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Other people concluded, rightly or wrongly, that the problems were limited to vaccine coming from Cutter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumor.
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Perrin had wrongly assumed that he would not get caught.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, rightly or wrongly , Eden's tenure in Downing Street is remembered as a single-issue premiership.
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His lawyer says he was entrapped by overzealous prosecutors who wrongly characterized campaign contributions as bribes.
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If you accidentally reformat characters wrongly , undo the reformatting straight away.
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In any event, the Richmond City Council has supported its determination that minorities have been wrongly excluded from local construction contracting.
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One imagines, probably quite wrongly , that the moon must be like the wilder areas of Sutherland.
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Rightly or wrongly , it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982.
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Sometimes our pictures are so inaccurate that we see a person wrongly or miss him altogether.
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They feel guilty - quite wrongly .