wrongly

[US]/'rɔŋli/
[UK]/ˈrɑŋlɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. erróneamente; de manera inexacta; inapropiadamente; injustamente.

Phrases & Collocations

wrongly accused

acusado injustamente

wrongly convicted

condenado injustamente

wrongly interpreted

interpretado erróneamente

wrongly identified

identificado erróneamente

wrongly accused of

acusado injustamente de

wrongly assumed

asumido erróneamente

wrongly blamed

culpado injustamente

wrongly judged

juzgado erróneamente

wrongly perceived

mal percibido

Example Sentences

She was wrongly labelled a liar.

Ella fue etiquetada erróneamente como mentirosa.

The firm reinstated the man who was wrongly dismissed.

La empresa reintegró al hombre que había sido despedido injustamente.

He acted wrongly and without scruple.

Él actuó mal y sin escrúpulos.

The concert was a failure because the instruments were wrongly keyed.

El concierto fue un fracaso porque los instrumentos estaban mal afinados.

The court excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police.

El tribunal excluyó la confesión obtenida erróneamente por la policía.

he campaigned on behalf of the wrongly convicted four.

Él hizo campaña en nombre de los cuatro condenados injustamente.

The president disclosed the fact that he was put into prison wrongly twenty years before.

El presidente reveló el hecho de que fue encarcelado injustamente veinte años antes.

Just as kusa grass wrongly handled cuts the hand, even so, a recluse's life wrongly lived drags one to states of woe.

Así como la hierba kusa, mal manejada, corta la mano, así también, una vida de ermitaño mal vivida arrastra a uno a estados de angustia.

mothers suspected that their babies had been wrongly tagged during an alarm at the hospital.

Las madres sospecharon que sus bebés habían sido etiquetados incorrectamente durante una alarma en el hospital.

Further, Marjorie Hoy and Jay Jeyaprakash of the University of Florida have determined that the technique employed in the Rochester study often wrongly indicates an absence of parasitization.

Further, Marjorie Hoy and Jay Jeyaprakash of the University of Florida have determined that the technique employed in the Rochester study often wrongly indicates an absence of parasitization.

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