Sentence examples for wrongly to be from inspiring English sources

Like Giffords, Brady was first reported wrongly to be dead.

It was believed — wrongly — to be a cure for syphilis and thus was extremely valuable.

The Korean war was an American venture intended to contain the newly victorious Chinese government of Mao Zedong, believed, quite wrongly, to be Moscow's puppet.

They were genuine attempts to fit my emerging sensibility into what I perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be the governing aesthetic philosophy of the time.

Generally, public sector ethos is assumed, rightly or wrongly, to be the motivation of everyone entering the world of public service.

Most of the world, by now, is more weary of the siege of Iraq than wary of what they assume, rightly or wrongly, to be a much diminished enemy.

This equals Acridine Orange (AO), which is falsely named a vital stain, and which stains nucleic acids either green (this was wrongly believed to be vital) or red (this was wrongly believed to be dead).

He had written about such attacks: Sikhs assaulted because they were wrongly perceived to be Muslim.

After all, these days Shaw is widely (if wrongly) taken to be a didactic windbag.

Amin Younes was wrongly adjudged to be offside before playing the ball to Viktor Fischer, who lashed the ball beyond Craig Gordon anyway.

He was often wrongly assumed to be playing the valve trombone, which allows easier articulation than the slide trombone.