Right
Right adverb - In a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose.
Usage example: you're not dressed right for an interview with a big-time law firm
Wrongly
Wrongly adverb - In a mistaken or inappropriate way.
Usage example: you have wrongly interpreted this passage in the Bible
Both words in one sentence
- Zola later admits Cezanne is right, but Zola finds his passion again when he stands up for the wrongly imprisoned Alfred Dreyfus.
Source: Trade Your Passion for Glory - Lindy Chamberlain was wrongly accused and convicted of murdering her baby daughter, and the media made hay of the fact that she didn't act the way they thought was right.
Source: Incriminating Indifference - Who was wrongly put in a coma, then beaten up his own alternate universe self, before having to watch his beloved die right in front of him, and see his ideologies, everything he believed in, collapse in front of his eyes.
Source: Freudian Excuse / Literature
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