wrongheaded
or wrong-head·ed
[rawng-hed-id, rong-]
- wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
Show More
Origin of wrongheaded
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Related Words
inimicalconflictingantitheticalhostilenegativeadversecontradictoryinconsistentdiscordantopposedwrongheadedparadoxicalstubbornfanaticalcategoricalassertiveunequivocalobstinatearbitraryintolerantExamples from the Web for wrongheaded
Contemporary Examples
John Kael Weston remembers a man whose death he blames on our wrongheaded policies.
But to see New York cave to the voices of fear, rather than of reason, is unprecedented, shameful, and wrongheaded.
But 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.
But that doesn't make their words any less hurtful or wrongheaded.
Historical Examples
They might be silly, wrongheaded, unhappy; but naturally evil—no.
End of the TetherJoseph Conrad
We can be wrongheaded and wronghearted, or the reverse, as we ourselves determine.
CharacterSamuel Smiles
He is as positive and wrongheaded about this as he is about hunting.
Bracebridge HallWashington Irving
In the ante-room, in a bad light, hangs a characteristic likeness of poor, wrongheaded Barry.
Haunted LondonWalter Thornbury
In fact, it would seem to be allowed within philosophical circles that Mill's works are often wrongheaded and unphilosophical.