Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a wrong manner; wrongly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Wrongly.
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- adverb obsolete
wrongly .
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Examples
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If someone publishes it, have they committed awrong?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Blogging Pseudonym Bites the Dust: 2009
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Continuing to torture a captive for information when it is clearly evident the captive does not know the information is also something virtually all can agree is also awrong.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture: 2009
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If someone publishes it, have they committed awrong?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Blogging Pseudonym Bites the Dust: 2009
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Katie Couric is the wrong person reporting on awrong war with the wrong skills toask the hard questions ~ which should be a prerequisiteforanational anchor on a major newscast.
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I have a duty to persuade people who want to take awrong approach to adopt
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Unless I read the signs awrong, it was her butchers who destroyed that village on the bay.
Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969
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And revelling in such dreams, she saw not the agony which overspread her listener's face as he read her thoughts partly awrong, and believed her content to throw herself away forever, in order to gain some temporary exaltation as a wealthy Roman's plaything.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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She was sentimental, and his little age appealed to her -- her sense of proportion and standard of values were all awrong.
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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Hanford had not read his friend Lowe awrong, and when, behind locked doors, he outlined his plan, the big fellow gazed at him with amazement, his blue eyes sparkling with admiration.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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And tell me the speech thou spakest awrong mine ears have heard,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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