Synonyms for wrongfully
wrong·ful·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. wrongfullyadverb

   in an unjust or unfair manner

   "the employee claimed that she was wrongfully dismissed"; "people who were wrongfully imprisoned should be released"

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1. List of paraphrases for "wrongfully":

   wrongly, unfairly, unjustly, erroneously, mistakenly, unduly, incorrectly, improperly, inappropriately, falsely, illegally, wrong, illicitly

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1. Comedian Nicole Arbour:

   There's a race card, there's a disability card. There's even a gay card, because gay people are discriminated against, wrongfully so. The gay card is covered in glitter.

2. John Phillips.In a statement:

   Omarosa Manigault Newman can not even get a straight answer about the amount of materials wrongfully possessed, this is premature, retaliatory and yet another attempt to silence a dissenting voice.

3. Norman County Attorney James Brue:

   The reality that this foolish stunt was dreamed up, planned, and executed by Pedro Ruiz, and the defendant wrongfully and tragically relied on Pedro Ruiz assurances that the stunt was safe.

4. Sheri Lynn Johnson:

   A seventh trial would be unprecedented, and completely unwarranted given both the flimsiness of the evidence against him and the long trail of misconduct that has kept him wrongfully incarcerated all these years.

5. Paul Whelan:

   We call for the Russian Federation to immediately release Mr. Gershkovich, we also call on Russia to release wrongfully detained U.S. citizen Paul Whelan.