adv. [f. WRONG a. + WISE sb.1 II.] In a wrong or reverse manner.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, IV. xi. 99. The illuminations, that they might be seen in their true position by the people, had to be limned wrong-wise up with regard to the writing.
1899. Carroll Carrington in S. F. Examiner, 26 March, 23/7. The friends of the twain had been looking at them all the while through spectacles that were turned wrong-wise from left to right.
