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wrongfully

Adverb

Meaning

in an unjust or unfair manner

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Those who reveal information the law makes it a crime to reveal, when doing so is the only way to demonstrate to the public that powerful officials are acting wrongfully or deceitfully. Glenn Greenwald

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. Patrick Rothfuss

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish. Justice, even if slow, is sure. Solon

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. José Martí

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. Neil Sheehan

He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. English Proverb

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