wrongheaded
or wrong-head·ed
wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
Origin of wrongheaded
1Other words from wrongheaded
- wrong·head·ed·ly, adverb
- wrong·head·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby wrongheaded
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How to use wrongheaded in a sentence
The idea that Snyder’s degrading management style could be safely contained to one team was always wrongheaded.
The NFL is paying the price for underestimating its Daniel Snyder problem | Sally Jenkins | October 29, 2021 | Washington PostWhat I do know is that the unabashed, unironic adoration for such a sincere yet wrongheaded musical is hard to kick at and strangely tricky to confront.
The whole situation is weird and wrongheaded and misses several dozen points.
John Kael Weston remembers a man whose death he blames on our wrongheaded policies.
Iraq War, 10th Anniversary: The Last Grand Mufti | John Kael Weston | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut to see New York cave to the voices of fear, rather than of reason, is unprecedented, shameful, and wrongheaded.
Stop Moping! The Marathon Is Exactly What New York Needs Right Now | Jay Michaelson | November 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He even probably considers him a threat to the country in a certain kind of way—because his policies are disastrously wrongheaded.
What Mitt Romney Could Do to Make the GOP Like Him More | Michael Tomasky | December 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it is wrongheaded to look at Sayles as just a filmmaker writing a book.
This seems to me just as wrongheaded as the idea that Bush v. Gore was a “lawless” decision.
In fact, it would seem to be allowed within philosophical circles that Mill's works are often wrongheaded and unphilosophical.
Only somehow it was a difficult point to make clear, if a person was so wrongheaded he couldn't see it for himself.
The Beauty and the Bolshevist | Alice Duer MillerBut it would be a no less capital blunder to copy what is cheap or trivial or vicious, or even what is merely wrongheaded.
African and European Addresses | Theodore RooseveltAt last he called them "wrongheaded asses," flung himself into his boat, and made down the river to Jamestown.
Pioneers of the Old South | Mary JohnstonHe had always thought his good cousin a singular man, but he had never thought him a wrongheaded fool till this moment.
Tales And Novels, Volume 7 (of 10) | Maria Edgeworth
British Dictionary definitions for wrong-headed
constantly wrong in judgment
foolishly stubborn; obstinate
Derived forms of wrong-headed
- wrong-headedly, adverb
- wrong-headedness, noun
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