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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɒŋ.li/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹɔŋ.li/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɹɑŋ.li/
• 韻: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋli, (General American) -ɔŋli, (cot–caught merger) -ɑŋli

副詞

wrongly (comparative more wrongly, superlative most wrongly)

1. In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.

   Synonyms: unfairly, unjustly, dishonestly, immorally, wrongfully; see also Thesaurus:unvirtuously

2. Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.

   Synonyms: incorrectly, mistakenly, erroneously

   Antonyms: correctly, rightly

   I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 41:

     "The minute I put my nose in that door she was at me for a drop of gin, but having no instructions to supply it, and being strictly teetotal myself, I have not done so, whether rightly or wrongly I leave you to judge, doctor."

   • 2023 December 20, Maria Cramer, “He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 20 December 2023:

     In March 2021, Mr. Livingston finally went up for parole after one of the lawyers from Appellate Advocates, De Nice Powell, argued he had been wrongly sentenced in the razor-blade contraband case and got the sentence reduced.

使用する際の注意点

In American English, this word usually has a moral connotation, although it is not wrong to use "wrongly" as the opposite of "correctly".

派生語