Example sentences for: wrongly

How can you use “wrongly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I don't mean to suggest that your response to The Green Mile (or that damn Jar Jar picture) isn't genuine--only that you seem to be responding both for yourself and for the unsophisticated moviegoer who will be better off seeing a movie in which a black man is a mystical healer wrongly executed than one in which a black man is, say, a drug pusher gorily dispatched by some action hero.

  • Naturally, we might be forced by other observations to conclude that we had misread the sphygmomanometer, the cuff was wrongly inflated, or even that the instrument was not functioning properly.

  • The rabbis were supposed to be chosen by an objective criterion--the length of their entries in a particular encyclopedia--but because of the "careless manner" in which this was carried out, rabbis were included who should not have been, while others were wrongly excluded.

  • Scheck, Neufeld, and their law students use DNA evidence to spring wrongly convicted criminals--frequently "rapists" and "murderers."

  • The Wall Street Journal front-page news box and USAT 's "Money" front report that the government has sued Time Warner, charging that the company has misclassified hundreds of full-time employees (many of them writers and photographers) as freelancers, wrongly denying them benefits in the process.


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