wrongly

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1 WRONG/INCORRECTnot correctly or in a way that is not based on facts 不正确地；错误地 OPP rightly

Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumour.

马修被误诊有脑瘤。

His name had been wrongly spelt.

他的名字被拼错了。

2 UNFAIRin a way that is unfair or immoral 不公正地；不道德地 OPP rightly

Human rights organizations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted.

人权组织坚称这些人被错判了。

→ rightly or wrongly at rightly

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wrongly• They feel guilty - quite wrongly.• Perrin had wrongly assumed that he would not get caught.• His lawyer says he was entrapped by overzealous prosecutors who wrongly characterized campaign contributions as bribes.• Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a brain tumor.• But, rightly or wrongly, Eden's tenure in Downing Street is remembered as a single-issue premiership.• In any event, the Richmond City Council has supported its determination that minorities have been wrongly excluded from local construction contracting.• Rightly or wrongly, it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982.• Sometimes our pictures are so inaccurate that we see a person wrongly or miss him altogether.• One imagines, probably quite wrongly, that the moon must be like the wilder areas of Sutherland.• If you accidentally reformat characters wrongly, undo the reformatting straight away.

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