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How Schmidt wrong-headedly, rested so many of his Test players ahead of Brisbane and left them drastically undercooked.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

I have alopecia universalis, an auto-immune condition where the body views hair as an intruder and – efficiently but wrong-headedly – destroys it.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019

It seems to set out his desire to be regarded as something beyond just a flash-in-the-pan fad, as Martin Amis wrong-headedly suggested Bowie was in a 1973 New Statesman piece.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2016

Because some people in drama, incredibly wrong-headedly, have the reverse view.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2012

With him he continued two years, and then rose to be under the care of Mr. Hunter, the headmaster, who, according to his account, 'was very severe, and wrong-headedly severe.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor