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Discover LudwigThe phrase "wrongly implicated" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
You can use "wrongly implicated" when someone is falsely accused or blamed for something they didn't do. It means that they have been mistakenly or unfairly linked to a wrongdoing. Example: "The innocent man was wrongly implicated in the murder case, causing him to spend years in prison before the real culprit was caught."
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Frequently, people are wrongly implicated along the way.
A23 Lawyer Wrongly Implicated The Federal Bureau of Investigation wrongly implicated an Oregon lawyer in a deadly train bombing in Madrid because the F.B.I. culture discouraged fingerprint examiners from disagreeing with their superiors, a panel of experts said.
Locy wrote skeptically about the investigation, comparing Hatfill to Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly implicated in the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
First she wrongly implicated a justice minister in the embezzlement scandal on the grounds that he was friends with the suicide victim Age Haugen.
Entwistle fell on his sword after being engulfed by a crisis that escalated following confirmation on Friday that the BBC had wrongly implicated Lord McAlpine, a former senior Tory politician, in a story about paedophilia.
The polygraph failed to cast suspicion on Aldrich Ames, the C.I.A. agent who spied for the Soviets, and wrongly implicated Wen Ho Lee, the Department of Energy scientist, as an agent of the Chinese government.
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The BBC director general, George Entwistle, on Saturday apologised for wrongly implicating the former Tory treasurer in the the north Wales children's homes child abuse scandal.
12.33pm GMT Van Klaveren and Mitchell Van Klaveren was parachuted into Newsnight to oversee production of the programme when the catastrophic broadcast wrongly implicating Lord McAlpine in child abuse was made.
In Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981), Newman gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a businessman whom a reporter (played by Sally Field) wrongly implicates in a murder.
The BBC was plunged into turmoil following a decision by Newsnight not to pursue a story on the sex offences of Jimmy Savile – which rival ITV's Exposure later broke – a situation compounded by a later story wrongly implicating Lord McAlpine in child abuse.
Rightly or wrongly, he blamed his mother's death on an adverse reaction to medication, and rightly or wrongly, he apparently implicated Dr. Davidson in the use of that medication.
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