wrong-headedness
- a word derived from wrong-headed.
Example Sentences
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It's the utter idiocy, the sheer wrong-headedness of the response that beggars belief.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
We can run the numbers to produce an estimate—not a perfect one, but a pretty good one—of Rivera's wrong-headedness.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2013
However, while multiculturalism is more ingrained in us, American wrong-headedness still creeps in.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2010
Apart from its wrong-headedness, Neville’s speech was entirely contrary to the climate of cooperation between organizations we were trying to create on the island.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Indeed, to love Molière—I mean to love him sincerely and with all one’s heart—it is, do you know? to have within one’s self a guarantee against many defects, much wrong-headedness.
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
