wrongheaded
Americanadjective
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wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
Other Word Forms
- wrongheadedly adverb
- wrongheadedness noun
Etymology
Origin of wrongheaded
Example Sentences
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This distinguishes it unfavorably from the traditional western, which, however reductive or politically wrongheaded, has always known how to keep an audience interested.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
But those were nothing next to the most wrongheaded move in recent Emmys history: the penalizing charity counter.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025
LaTourette wrote that the city “has repeatedly engaged in destructive and illegal conduct in the name of tourism and, supposedly, public safety. This is wrongheaded and it must stop.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024
Worrying about A.I. safety isn’t wrongheaded, but the doomers’ path to notability has insiders raising eyebrows.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2023
In fact, the move to teach calculus in some high schools seems to me wrongheaded if it leads to the exclusion of the above topics in finite mathematics.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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