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

This historian of his own wrong-headedness proceeds, with all the simplicity of this narrative, to describe the hubbub.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac