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wrongful

 adjective
     
wrong‧ful

wrongful arrest/conviction/imprisonment/dismissal etc

a wrongful arrest etc is unfair or illegal because the person affected by it has done nothing wrong:
She's threatening to sue her employers for wrongful dismissal.
—wrongfully adverb
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