wrongfully
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
Wrongfully means unfairly or against the law (formal, law). tree →
sense in the lessons
In news and law, someone wrongfully accused or wrongfully imprisoned was treated unfairly. Phrases: wrongfully accused, wrongfully convicted.
examples
- He was wrongfully accused of stealing. tree →
- She was wrongfully imprisoned for years. tree →
- The worker was wrongfully dismissed. tree →
- The dog was wrongfully blamed for the mess. tree →
- They were wrongfully punished. tree →
- The court freed the wrongfully convicted man. tree →
- They were now on their way to Greece, in hopes of getting back a kingdom that had been wrongfully taken from their father. tree →
note
Formal. Adjective: wrongful. Do not confuse with «wrongly» (in a mistaken way).
In the corpora
- But mine enemies are strong in health; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wrongfully» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.