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wrongheaded or wrong-head·ed [ rawng -hed -id, rong - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈrɔŋˈhɛd ɪd, ˈrɒŋ- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
Origin of wrongheaded First recorded in 1725–35; wrong + headed
OTHER WORDS FROM wrongheaded wrong·head·ed·ly, adverb wrong·head·ed·ness, noun Words nearby wrongheaded wrong font, wrong-foot, wrong fount, wrongful, wrongful death, wrongheaded , wrong number, wrong scent, on the, wrong side of someone, wrong side of the tracks, wrong 'un
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Example sentences from the Web for wrongheaded John Kael Weston remembers a man whose death he blames on our wrongheaded policies.
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But to see New York cave to the voices of fear, rather than of reason, is unprecedented, shameful, and wrongheaded .
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But it is wrongheaded to look at Sayles as just a filmmaker writing a book.
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But that doesn't make their words any less hurtful or wrongheaded .
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We can be wrongheaded and wronghearted, or the reverse, as we ourselves determine.
In the ante-room, in a bad light, hangs a characteristic likeness of poor, wrongheaded Barry.
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At last he called them "wrongheaded asses," flung himself into his boat, and made down the river to Jamestown.
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Only somehow it was a difficult point to make clear, if a person was so wrongheaded he couldn't see it for himself.
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In fact, it would seem to be allowed within philosophical circles that Mill's works are often wrongheaded and unphilosophical.
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for wrongheaded adjective constantly wrong in judgment
foolishly stubborn; obstinate
Derived forms of wrong-headed wrong-headedly , adverb wrong-headedness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to wrongheaded inimical, conflicting, antithetical, hostile, negative, adverse, contradictory, inconsistent, discordant, opposed, paradoxical, stubborn, fanatical, categorical, assertive, unequivocal, obstinate, arbitrary, intolerant, emphatic