By accident
Wrongly and by accident are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrongly" instead an adverb phrase "By accident".
Wrongly
Wrongly adverb - In a mistaken or inappropriate way.
By accident and wrongly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "By accident" instead an adverb "Wrongly".
Both terms in one sentence
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Mickey also gets the short end of the stick when a needlessly complicated attempt to talk to Minnie ends with her breaking up with him after he sees her in a towel by accident and is wrongly accused of leaving her for a mousedroid.
Source: Laser-Guided Karma -
While her teleportation rune explains why she can send people to different places, and her general ditziness means this happens by accident or is done wrongly on occasion, it does not explain why she has the ability to travel through time, entirely by accident, usually after sneezing.
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