When is it correct to use the word "wrongly"?

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When is it correct to use the word \"wrongly\"?

example:

He was wrongly accused of the crime.

Don't take this wrongly, but that color doesn't look good on you.



Both \"wrong\" and \"wrongly\" are proper adverb forms. I don't know how this came to be, but \"wrongly\" is used before a verb, as in \"wrongly accused,\" but \"wrong\" is used as a post-noun (or, in this case, a post-pronoun) modifier, as in \"Don't take this wrong\" or \"He got all the answers wrong.\"

From Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan Garner. Copyright 2003 by Bryan A. Garner. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., www.oup-usa.org, and used with the gracious consent of Oxford University Press.