Cruelly and Wrongly

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Cruelly adverb - With cruelty.

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Wrongly and cruelly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wrongly" instead an adverb "Cruelly".

Nearby Words: cruel, cruelty

Wrongly adverb - In a mistaken or inappropriate way.

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Cruelly and wrongly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruelly" instead an adverb "Wrongly".

Nearby Words: wrong, wrongful, wronged, wrongfully

This was cruelly exposed in Eldest, where Paolini also drops a huge clanger when Oromis talks about Eragon's screw-up with Elva, applying idiosyncratic rules of English, wrongly, to his fictional language.

Source: Literature / Inheritance Cycle aka: The Inheritance Cycle

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