🇬🇧 Wrongly meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

"Wrongly" means doing something in a not-correct way. If you answer a question wrongly, you did not get it right. If you put your shoes on the wrong feet, you put them on wrongly. It tells us that the action was done in a mistaken or inaccurate way.

I wrongly tried to brush my teeth with chocolate sauce and wondered why my toothbrush tasted like dessert.

I wrongly called my teacher “Mom,” and my actual mom laughed for the rest of the week.

My sister wrongly believed glitter was easy to clean, and now our house sparkles like a unicorn exploded.

I wrongly assumed my sandwich was safe, but the sneaky seagull proved me extremely, loudly wrong.

The robot vacuum wrongly attacked my toes, clearly mistaking them for extremely wiggly dust bunnies.

She put the mug on the cat wrongly. The cat jumped, knocked the mug wrongly, and the mug hit the plant wrongly. Her brother shouted wrongly that she broke it, and she cried wrongly because it was not broken. Then they both saw the mug whole, and they laughed together.

This word is at the B2 level, which means it’s used in more complex conversations and texts. It helps you discuss abstract ideas, express opinions clearly, and engage in discussions on a variety of topics, both personal and professional.

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