wrongwise

From wrong +‎ -wise. Compare English wrongous.

wrongwise (comparative more wrongwise, superlative most wrongwise)

1. (rare) In a wrong way or manner.
   • 1903, Everybody's Magazine, volume 9, page 517:

     Being ruffled and the fur of his sensibilities being rubbed wrongwise by Wagner's exasperating din, he said as much to the audience generally from his place in the box.

   • 1913, Hearst's Magazine - Volume 23, Issues 4-6, page 831:

     It is to be feared that even this slight submission by the lofty Mr. Rea rubbed measurably wrongwise the vain fur of his self-love.

   • 1919, The Bookman, volume 48, page 181:

     With anie Mark at all; —noe, let him not
     My Parchment wrongwise fold, nor stamp, nor blot, […]

   • 2010, Steven Brust, Iorich, page 65:

     “Up one level, follow wrongwise until—here, I'll write out the directions; they're a bit involved.”