Sentence examples for wrongly known from inspiring English sources

Hippeastrum (often wrongly known as amaryllis) are seen as highly naff.

The remains of ancient Tusculum include a forum, an amphitheatre of the 2nd century ad, and a complex of buildings wrongly known as the villa of Cicero.

The nature of the case — involving a high-profile official rightly or wrongly known for roguish behavior who was accused of breaking drug laws at the hottest nightclub of the 1970s — made the matter hard to ignore.

Mr. Higazy, now 36, was briefly — and wrongly — known as a mysterious figure who fled a hotel room directly across Church Street from the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, leaving behind a Koran, an Egyptian passport and an aviation radio that might have allowed him to communicate with the hijacked airliners that flew into the towers.

Those numbers were valid, of course, before the war to depose President Bashar al-Assad ensnared a city known — wrongly, many contend — as a pillar of the regime.

Both were wrongly identified as known members of the Solanum genus, a large group of flowering plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and aubergines.

2 Indeed the Common Law already does this for a special class of wrongly decided cases known as per incuriam: a later court is not bound by an earlier decision in which the earlier court failed to consider a precedent binding on it.

In a now famous 2008 essay, Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit refers to (some) men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't and why women allow themselves to be silenced.

Sometimes musicians resent the interference and, rightly or wrongly, think they know better.

Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman, works hard to achieve consensus on the Fed's policy committee, and in 2010 and 2011 the committee was skewed toward officials predicting — wrongly, we now know — that inflation was a bigger threat than unemployment.

"Rightly or wrongly, and I know Stale has a different view, if you look back at our results, three wins in 18 games is just not good enough.