a wrongly | Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. (defdate|First attested in the mid 16th century.)(reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =Brown, Lesley | others = | title = The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =Oxford University Press | location =Oxford, UK | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =10| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =)
a (archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse. (defdate|First attested in the late 16th century.)
a Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. (defdate|First attested in the early 17th century.)
a (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. (defdate|Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.)