'wrongly thinking' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an expression commonly used to refer to when someone has formed an incorrect opinion or belief. For example: I was wrongfully thinking that my neighbor was too busy to help me, but she was more than happy to lend a hand.
Kling took his foot off the gas for a brief instant after 60 laps, wrongly thinking that the race was over.
Broadcasters have been guilty of wrongly thinking that British viewers did not want to see older women on television, a senior BBC news executive has admitted.
The charity's report identifies three key issues standing in the way of self-employed people saving into a pension: Lack of understanding: more than two thirds of self-employed people (67 per cent) do not understand the tax breaks provided by a offered by cash ISAs and private pensions with a quarter (25 per cent) wrongly thinking that an Isa offers better tax breaks than a pension.
According to him, a technological tiller is when we stick an old design onto a new technology wrongly thinking it will work.
And the Zen master, Dogen (1200 1253), wrote about "wrongly thinking that the nature of things will appear when the whole world we perceive is obliterated" (Dogen, 1986, 39).
Facebook had to make sure it had the messaging perfect so users wouldn't panic, wrongly thinking their grandma just saw their private, booze-soaked, scantly-clad pre-party photos.
A consequent risk is that a reader might be confused and wrongly informed, thinking that this approach should be used for every software development effort, regardless its size.
Plus, yoga is responsible for people thinking, wrongly, that it is OK to wear MC Hammer pants in public.
So a viewer of "Brooklyn Bridge," Burns's first professional film, from 1981, would be forgiven for thinking, wrongly, that it described the world's first suspension bridge.
For the uninitiated: "false balance" means thinking wrongly that you have to give pro and anti equal airtime, regardless of the facts, editorial judgment and the expertise of the interviewee.
1.22pm: As examples of politicians falling foul of regulations, he mentions Peter Hain, who did not declare all his deputy leadership campaign contributions on time, and Wendy Alexander, who eventually resigned after accepting a donation from Jersey and thinking (wrongly) Jersey was part of the UK as far as the legislation was concerned.
