accuse wrongly
Frequency: 7.211.8 per million words
To claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal, when they have not.
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- The police often accuse people wrongly based on circumstantial evidence.
- It's unfair to wrongly accuse someone without concrete proof.
- She felt terrible after realizing she had wrongly accused her colleague.
- Many innocent individuals have been wrongly accused throughout history.
- Never accuse a person wrongly; it can ruin their reputation.
- The witness later admitted he had wrongly accused the defendant.
- He was wrongly accused of theft, but the truth eventually came out.
- Don't accuse me wrongly; I had nothing to do with it.
- The newspaper had to retract its story after wrongly accusing the politician.
- If you wrongly accuse someone, you should apologize sincerely.