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Example sentences for "wrongfully"

Lexicographically close words:
wrongest; wrongeth; wrongful; wrongfull; wrongfullie; wrongfulness; wrongheaded; wronging; wrongly; wrongness
  1. You have sent me the costs of the pleas, but not declared particularly how often I have been wrongfully distrained by the enforcing of the said Heydon.

  2. Our country was in danger of occupying the position of having actually set up a temporary government on foreign soil for the purpose of acquiring through that agency territory which we had wrongfully put in its possession.

  3. Except with a few special savants, belief and obedience will always be unthinking, while Reason would wrongfully resent the leadership of prejudice in human affairs, since, to lead, it must itself become prejudiced.

  4. Revolt is simply just defense; in withdrawing ourselves from their hands we only recover what is wrongfully held and which legitimately belongs to us.

  5. These words are spoken to the church, which then resided in this family: Not but that God will avenge the blood that is wrongfully shed, though the person murdered be most carnal and irreligious.

  6. Replevy": a form of law by which goods that are proved to have been wrongfully seized are re-delivered to the owner.

  7. The hire of them that reaped down your field, The which by you is wrongfully withheld.

  8. Heauens is the quarrell: for heauens substitute His Deputy annointed in his sight, Hath caus'd his death, the which if wrongfully Let heauen reuenge: for I may neuer lift An angry arme against his Minister Dut.

  9. Mary that he had receiued a thousand Dukates of Don Iohn, for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully Kemp.

  10. He made no attempt to say that his letters were not intended to protect Huss from prosecution, but treated them as having been wrongfully violated.

  11. In one of these absolution was actually offered to those who held property wrongfully acquired, provided they contributed its value in aid of the crusade, thus deliberately rendering the Church an accomplice in robbery.

  12. I consider that you have been punished sufficiently already, but I must insist upon the restoration of the estates of which I have been wrongfully deprived.

  13. Being in possession, it is for those who question her right to show that she is wrongfully in possession.

  14. So the ambassadors of the Goths in their turn said: "You have done us an injustice, O Romans, in taking up arms wrongfully against us, your friends and allies.

  15. The generosity of the State in compensating those who have been wrongfully convicted and punished has grown into a proverb.

  16. Nobody would let you be wrongfully accused," she interrupted.

  17. But because poor Ralph has been wrongfully and wickedly accused, no one will look at me.

  18. Nobody was ever in prison wrongfully who did not believe in the writ of habeas corpus.

  19. But for my part, I have hope that with the help of the gods I shall have vengeance upon them shortly, and execute upon the guilty the punishment for the Persians whom I have lost wrongfully before this wall.

  20. And again, I say unto you, that my servant Isaac Morley may not be tempted above that which he is able to bear, and counsel wrongfully to your hurt, I gave commandment that his farm should be sold.

  21. Passing to private nuisances, a wrong or tort consists in wrongfully disturbing one in the reasonably comfortable use and enjoyment of his property.

  22. So, if a carrier by mistake delivered goods to the wrong person who keeps them, and the carrier is obliged to pay for their value, he can recover the amount of the other person who thus wrongfully keeps them.

  23. A member who has been wrongfully expelled may be restored by a mandamus proceeding issued by a court.

  24. And if the capital stock of a company has been wrongfully paid away by the directors as dividends, it may be recovered by the creditors from anyone who is not an innocent receiver.

  25. You speak of the labour of giving, but if you seek your God and haply find him you will not rest night or day while you live until you have restored every dollar possible of that which you have wrongfully taken from others.

  26. And the Church to-day, to repeat your own parallel, grows rich with money wrongfully got.

  27. I believe that there exists a proper disposition in the Executive to interfere, where American citizens are wrongfully treated abroad.

  28. For seventeen years he had wrongfully enjoyed Carranza's sequestrated revenues, which, allowing for all deductions, must have yielded him two or three millions of ducats.

  29. If he be wrongfully accused, he has his action of slander; and it is at the poet's peril if he transgress the law.

  30. An accomplished young lady, Miss Margaret Kilmartin, aged nineteen, said her father had been wrongfully imprisoned for two and a half years for shooting a bailiff.

  31. They complain that the Protestants have all the best land, and that the Papist population were wrongfully driven from the ground now occupied by the colony.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrongfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.